Tag: Watchfulness

  • On Peter O’Leary’s Watchfulness

    Watchfulness, poems by Peter O’Leary Spuyten Duyvil (ISBN# 1-881471-73-X); 144 pages. $12.00     Despite its deep-searching mysticism and splendid inventions of gnostic histories, Peter O’Leary’s first collection, Watchfulness, shares little with the tradition of Western devotional verse. Although the tonal and iconic elements might resemble in passing Herbert, Blake, Hopkins, even R.S. Thomas, these poems derive […]