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"These poems, which examine the spiritual as well as the psychological effects of being a Christian, offer an amalgam of diverse yet related influences: John Donne's ""Holy Sonnets""; Alfred, Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H.; and Emily Dickinson's ""Behind me--dips Eternity--."" Another significant source may also be apparent: the sonnet sequences of such Renaissance poets as Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, and William Shakespeare. However, although the poems in Galactic Pilgrim generate a sense of thematic sequence, and although--composed of octets with variable rhyme schemes--they proceed in the same stanzaic form, they are, most decidedly, not sonnets. Rather, they are, as samples of formal poetry, what their author prefers to call either ""triads"" (since each poem contains three stanzas) or ""quaternals"" (a coinage that underscores the role of the reader as the fourth component, the co-creative entity, that responds to, and intertwines with, each triadic structure). All in all, reflecting key concepts from Jungian psychology and the new physics, these patterned lyrics seek to unfold--through form no less than through content--a unified and coherent philosophic vision steeped in the model life of the Christian Redeemer."

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Comments on Daniel Orsini's Galactic Pilgrim Reviewer: Ben W. McClelland, University of Mississippi In Galactic Pilgrim Daniel Orsini depicts an array of scenes, exhibits an astounding reach of language, juxtaposes complex and interconnected levels of thought, and orchestrates fine rhythms. The sum being more than the parts, the whole of Galactic Pilgrim adds up to an erudite set of reflective poems for the contemporary reader. In this unusual poetry of sound, sense, and self, Daniel Orsini keenly crafts epitomic images and philosophic visions of man in a redeemed world. For the reader, like the communicant experiencing transubstantiation, these words metamorphose in the believer's mind--indeed, in the soul of his very being--into spiritual acknowledgments of Christ's primacy and man's ultimate wholeness in the world. With so much pedestrian religiosity out and about today, Galactic Pilgrimchallenges readers with substantial contemporary reflections on man's nature and his metaphysical being. The extensive structuring of this poetry reveals the incessant discipline of a talented wordsmith, as well as the all-embracing faith of an unswerving believer. (Ben McClelland is the author of Soldier's Son.)

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