In Ordinary Light: New and Selected Poems

New and Selected Poems by Darrell Bourque In Ordinary Light: New and Selected Poems is a compilation of poems written by Darrell Bourque, Louisiana's Poet Laureate, over the last forty years. It includes selected poems from all the previously published volumes, all the poems from The Blue Boat, and all the poems written by Bourque from Call and Response: Conversations in Verse (written with Jack B. Bedell). "For Darrell Bourque a poem is a communion with a moment, a conversation with life, a commemoration of meaning. If in the beginning there was the word, for Darrell Bourque the word is a beginning, his tool for shaping, defining, and consecrating the ordinary fragments of life and living into a sacred text of elevated worth. His poems are revelations of the divine and numinous in the seemingly mundane. No moment in a life is immune to his illumination, his poetry a balm and an antidote to the fragmentation of modernity." —Michael Sartisky, PhD, President, Louisiana Endowment for the