The Echoes Return Slow

" Comprising a – surely poetic – prose passage and poem per page, The Echoes Return Slow charts the life of Thomas from young priest in wartime Wales and, in so doing, reveals the themes that would serve as the poet’s staple throughout his creative life. However, even in these more personally accessible – because autobiographical – poems, the Thomas voice rings out loud and clear…and pithily: ‘I was vicar of large things/in a small parish.’ (p23) He can be wonderfully withering on the social side of his ministry, too: ‘here we exchange insults willingly’ and ‘I slide an eye at my watch.’ (p38). Wonderful, revealing stuff, recalling the barbed likening of our churches to: ‘…limousines in the procession/ towards heaven.’ (Counterpoint (p105)). Lines that make the eyes smile only. Yet contrast this with his real calling, amongst, for instance, ‘old ladies/ stiff in their beds, mostly with pale eyes/ wintering me.’(p43). Or in being taught how to pray by the ocean’s ‘rising and falling’ much like the sea of prayer breaking continually upon God: ‘not like this for a few hours,/ but for days, years, for eternity.’ (p51)." [Michael di Placido] Книга «The Echoes Return Slow» автора R. S. Thomas оценена посетителями КнигоГид, и её читательский рейтинг составил 8.00 из 10.
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