Rhythms All Aquiver

Author: Barbara Wuest Publisher: Kelsay Books (2020) "What would happen if we lived our lives as we should, waiting for things to make sense and not presuming that they already do? What kind of sense would things make? Barbara Wuest’s poems are an answer to those questions. There seems to be a waiting moment in each of her poems, a way in which something examined, an owl in the snow, a tree in the yard, a song in a chapel, a picture on a wall, turns into something else, and what becomes clear is nothing one would expect. “All” is the most important word in the title of this compendium, for this is a writer in search of the ‘all’ in everyday life and is willing to wait for it to emerge. In one poem, Wuest calls this place where all returns ‘the tender unknown.’ Accessed by words or images near words, or words that are images, allness has its own language. It’s a language that includes input from forces that meet without tense, at work in an essential rhythm that works mystically to prov