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For what does the spirit yearn? To know God. Maurya Simon s wonderful new book, Ghost Orchid, throws fresh light on that traditional question and answer in poems full of the sensuous language of the Song of Songs and the graphic images of modern disaffection. She shows us good and evil, both conscious and unconscious, and, even as she doubts such a reality, asks for God s touch upon our waking lives. The yearning to know God, the legacy of human generations, has its latest expression in these ravishing poems."

Maurya Simon's twelfth volume of poems, The Blue Bridge, is a literary tour de force that bears witness to the twenty-first century's dire and lasting dangers brought about by human folly and greed. At the same time that it laments species loss, it honours the enduring lives of small creatures, and the perseverance and adaptability of larger animals.

Simon also charts the journey of her own life in an America that is increasingly marked by violence and division, as well as by the ameliorating and lasting ties between people.

At turns philosophical, playful, irreverent, and passionate,...