This collection has been chosen by UNESCO for their Collection of Representative Works. In Stetie's exquisite, soberly beautiful poems, Western culture merges with Oriental and Arabic traditions. His writing has a swirling metaphysical dimension, which never ceases to root itself in earthy, sensuous experience. His poems evoke a deep, half-questioning, half-serene meditation of all that is "hanging on the other side of being"-"the great soft lion's track in the invisible"-which still captures the swarming particularities of ...
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This collection has been chosen by UNESCO for their Collection of Representative Works. In Stetie's exquisite, soberly beautiful poems, Western culture merges with Oriental and Arabic traditions. His writing has a swirling metaphysical dimension, which never ceases to root itself in earthy, sensuous experience. His poems evoke a deep, half-questioning, half-serene meditation of all that is "hanging on the other side of being"-"the great soft lion's track in the invisible"-which still captures the swarming particularities of our daily presence in the world. "anyone with an ear for stentorian splendor will enjoy it."-Publishers Weekly "the reader would be hard pressed to find a more rewarding collection of recently published poetry than Stetie's 'Cold Water Shielded.'"-World Literature Today
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