DAVID MUTSCHLECNER

GRAVE IN THE SWAY

What exactly is the relationship between Thomism and Projective Verse? A direct encounter with being is the starting point:                         

       “Although there is no 

                                              middle term 

                                     between A              and not-A 

                                              there is 

                                     between Is              and not-Is,” 

                                                       grace being 

                                                       in free fall

David Mutchlecner has been developing theopoetics for over twenty-five years, a radical openness to the world that finds form in the field. Grave in the Sway arrives like a report from the borderlands of consciousness, ever present to what can be asked. But for all the reconciliation between mind and world such a poetics demands, the poems here still sometimes disappear in agape:

What lives for me 

when I get rid

of even the wine skin? 

What is the wine skin? What 

pours into what? 

 —Michael O’Leary

Verge Books

Chicago

2025

ISBN 978-1-7374307-6-6

$21