Lectio violant by Steve Ely Alex Josephy Staying Human also draws on

Staying Human also draws on poems suggested by readers because they’ve been so important in their own lives

death and resurrection of language itself

imaginative under- and over-world where myth and politics

In these dark and final meditations and flashes of passion

Is Not tremble with this inseeing: of the deer and the hummingbirds among the rhododendrons

Lectio violant by Steve Ely Alex Josephy Staying Human also draws on"The poems in this book are improvisations arising from contemplative readings of four chapters of the 1611 edition of the King James BibleMatthew VI, Mark V, Luke XV and Luke X. Lectio Violantprofane readingis the name Ive coined to describe this process, alluding to Lectio Divinadivine readingthe long established Catholic practice of devotional reading, the purpose of which is to draw the reader closer to God by enabling a fuller experience of