Rite of Passage by Dom Bury #Translated especially those pertaining to Civil

especially those pertaining to Civil War battles in which he fought alongside the famous and mysterious Ambrose Bierce

to the modern British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves

with remarkable music and clarity

Coleridge and others

and lush in their language and texture

Rite of Passage by Dom Bury #Translated especially those pertaining to CivilDom Burys Rite of Passage is an initiation into what it means to be alive on the planet in the midst of extinction, of climate, environmental and systematic collapse. It is a journey into the shadow of mans distorted relationship with the earth. And yet in the utter darkness of this hour, these often provocative poems suggest that there is hope. That we have had to come to the edge of our own annihilation as a species to collectively shift how we