Confidence

“It’s possible that what David Craig has fashioned here is a new Book of Common Prayer. Within the universe of devotions, Craig is able to bring about observations and observances that shine with wit and existential piety which succeeds in erasing the distance between perceiving subject and perceived objects, between the quasi-fictive speaker and the chair he sits in. The fluidity of subject, predicate, object in the lived understanding of universal Oneness in the being of God becomes, as in Wallace Stevens, ‘the motive for metaphor,’ and the reader can dissolve in the poems’ momentary transformations.”
—Bill Tremblay, author of Walks along the Ditch: Poems

“David Craig is a psalmist who praises the complexity of the way, as St. John of the Cross once celebrated its darkness, as Gerard Manley Hopkins celebrated the strangeness and depth of the visions which burst one through illusion. I believe David Craig to be the foremost religious poet of the day whose special gift is to reveal the presence and care of God in all things—especially the most unlikely things. He gives poems as rich in humanity as they are in the mystery of God. . . . This is a major work in the mystical tradition.”
—Howard McCord, author of Collected Poems