St. Francis Poems

"If anyone has drunk deeply of the model of St. Francis for our time, it has to be David Craig. He scatters flowers of spiritual wisdom with abandon toward us, which again and again and again bless even as they burn."

--Paul Mariani, author of Epitaphs for the Journey



"David Craig is a rare breed of religious poet, a contemporary metaphysical who like Donne or Hopkins welds fact to faith, and like no one else shows us the glimmers in the particulars of surfaces . . . This poetry is transformative; it floods the reader with the richness of the real . . . I think David Craig really is the best religious poet writing today."

--Janet McCann, author of Wallace Stevens Revisited: "The Celestial Possible"



On the Gospel Sonnets:



"Taken singly, each poem is wonderfully crafted and deeply wise. Taken together, they stand as an achievement that is nothing less than monumental. They confirm what I have long suspected, that David Craig is among the finest religious poets writing today."

--William Bedford Clark, author of The Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren