The Daily Glance
Chad Sweeney's Arranging the Blade is full of insight and beauty. It leans towards the prophetic, but it's a prophetic place in the heart of the U.S. by a poet navigating myriad influences from Navajo and Iroquois to Basho to Oklahoma family. In fact, many of the poems seem like tiny parables, such as "The Great Poems." Many individual pieces are excellent, such as "The River" with its vague but appealing symbolism:
I went to the river and the churches had fallen,
library books swirled away in the flood
their pages turning slowly
as if someone in the water
were reading them.
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