As a sequence, going home unfolds with
a mixture of astonishing technical
assurance and intense personal and
physical immediacy. We are reminded
that the tongue tastes as well as speaks,
and that the complex experience of a
many-layered cultural history is built
into the whole life of the body. These
are poems in which the meaningfulness
of the convergence of body and soul
is wonderfully captured; a rare, vivid,
sensitive, precise voice.
~ Rowan Williams
Former Archbishop of Canterbury,
Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge,
theologian, and poet
