The Secret Book of God

“Sometimes brilliance reflects a pair of turning hands. To catch a glimpse of what this lovely brilliance is like suggests our own hands turn over pages of a book in which such secrets of soul-tending loveliness are shared. The book of poems by poet-mythologist Richard Lance Williams, the secret book of god, offers readers this kind of soulful opportunity. Sometimes, too, what a soulful brilliance is like cannot be too simply told. Because such expression asks us not to name its name too quickly, we must open our ‘selves’ (just a little) to discover how these selves in each of us long here and belong together the way the artist will have rendered them. A remarkable and powerful expression of soul, the secret book of god can only be shared like a quest for the “mythogenic” center of our most deeply held knowing. Like every best kept, the secret book of god is one of Austin’s finer secrets…although, not for long.” ~ Stephanie Pope, MA Poet & Cultural Mythologist author of Like A Woman Falling