Robert Cording

Heavy Grace Robert Cording

Cording's third book of poetry, Heavy Grace is a sensitive memento mori that resonates with both the industrious drone of the hummingbird and the lamenting call of the loon. Cording perceives with a deeply spiritual, yet self-conscious eye; the effect of this deeply moving book of poetry is to sew the self to the spiritual in a way that leaves the reader hovering one, dizzying inch above terra firma. In short, Heavy Grace is what poetry is all about: both lyric beauty and soft, sudden revelation.