Darius Poetry
 

“There's magic in these pages -- a glittering eye carefully tuned to transporting rhythms, resonant moments, repeated song - choruses wide and deep enough to say Life! and Mystery! all at once.” -- Naomi Shihab Nye

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“There is deep wisdom and joy to be found in Darius Degher’s latest collection, To See the Sound. In poems that balance elegant, well-crafted lines with the bite of a contemporary and original voice, Degher stuns the reader poem after poem with a formalism that, as the speaker hopes for in ‘In the City Lights Bookstore,’ is ‘holy and uncarved.’ I cannot recommend this book highly enough.” -- Rob Griffith

 

“Sensuous, playful, and expertly crafted, this collection achieves that rare balance between intelligence and heart, presenting, in the poet’s own words, ‘pellucid divinity in corporeal clothes.’” -- April Lindner

 

“Darius Degher’s poems adroitly work between the old and the new. Here we have the ancient magic of metaphor-making combined with a richly musical handling of traditional meter. However, Degher’s ear and eye are tuned to the imagery, speech, and problems of now, and he understands the poet’s call to speak to his age and does so with great sensitivity and precision. This is a unique voice and an impressive collection. See it and hear it and rejoice.” -- Paul Bone

 

“Here is a poet alive to the richness of the contemporary world and the ironies of his place within it. Evocative, earthy and humane, these personal narratives form bright eddies in the flow of historical time -- a movement that his work both recognises and resists, insisting on the living moment and its sense of connection. This is an eclectic and wise collection, revealing a fluid and subtle sense of form built from the cross-rhythms of language and meaning.” -- Graham Mort

 

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