The Catskills Above the Catskills (Ptolemaic Visions)
I want to follow the paths of the stars, I tell myself. But this is not true. I want them to follow me. After all, the Earth is the center of the universe, and, as I am the center of the Earth, the universe revolves around me.
On The Poetic Works of John Devlin, Part III
The spirit riding through the house of human memory. A taste of heavenliness still melancholy with lived sufferings. The hell of the present through which heaven is found — the finding of which is a middle-ground, and the site of personal, heretical, intense theology.
On The Poetic Works of John Devlin, Part II
The re-imagining of Christianity among its livelier adherents is as vital as any secular “poetics.”
On the Poetic Works of John Devlin, Part I
Devlin’s cover-art, in conjunction with the title and text, suggests to me the situation of the astrologer on earth, whose observations describe the dome of the heavens.