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  <default_description>Glean, a reference to the gathering of grain after harvest, explores the appalling trust implicit in any act of faith that prayer may not elicit a response. Spare and evocative, the collection struggles with a language at odds with itself. How do we write about an absence that can never be fully possessed or known, an absence that may be all we ever glimpse of the divine? When does spirituality become more real than its pursuit? Moving between doubt and vulnerability, the body and its unresolved spiritual fate, these poems dedicate themselves to the pursuit of redemption.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Joshua Kryah has a range and voice surprisingly unique and cohesive for a first book. This is a guy to watch. Expect great things from him in the future!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Joshua Kryah’s poems slip easily off the contemporary tongue, and yet they would be as at home in the mouth of a monk in medieval France, a Brazilian missionary, the courtier to his beloved.  Their art is shelter to the questions of a young father, a poet living in Las Vegas, who wonders whether l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41913598">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reminds me, at times, of Eric Pankey's The Late Romances.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[greater than great.]]></body>
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