A Dance in Medias Res

"A Dance in Medias Res is a masterful work that directs the soul to the presence of God in the middle of ordinary things. Ryan Keating offers a liturgy of simplicity and power that reminds us that even the ordinary things are not merely ordinary. Like the glass of wine he often employs, these poems are best sipped and savored."

--Gregory E. Ganssle, professor of philosophy, Talbot School of Philosophy, Biola University



"I imagine Ryan Keating's poetry as a meal served at his wine and coffee bar. Seemingly humble in its ingredients, his poems mix and blend in a way that lingers long after they're first drunk. Keating's work is a table hospitably set, offering to delight and nourish through what we desire most."

--Conor Sweetman, editor, Ekstasis



"A Dance in Media Res is exactly that: a waltz, a shimmy, a pirouette, and a two-step or two, set right here in the middle of things, within life in its ordinariness and its glory, in its minutes and its eternity, in its places, spaces, rhythms. These are poems to read and ponder and read again, poems that will lift your eyes upward and still plant your feet on the ground."

--Karen Swallow Prior, author of The Evangelical Imagination