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Jeff Gundy

Jeff Gundy‘s fifth book of poems is Spoken among the Trees (Akron, 2007); his recent work is in The Sun, Georgia Review, Cincinnati Review, and Image. He is working on a book about theopoetics and Anabaptism and a meditation on his experience as a Fulbright lecturer in Salzburg.

Poetry

Summer 2009

Having It All Four Ways

By Jeff Gundy

By a primal oneness the four—earth and sky, divinities and mortals—belong together in one. —Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking” Now I a fourfold vision see . . . —Blake Prologue Triangles […]

Spring 2012

Meditation on Narrative, Dogma, and Flight

By Jeff Gundy

My people are not natural storytellers.

Ask my father for a story, he’s still trying to get it going
when all the boys have drifted off to the kitchen.

Still, I want the reader as far inside of my skin as possible,
no matter the difficulties. . . .