With Love Forever

The poet and artist, Anthony Hassett, at the end of his life, wrote: "I'm much more appreciative of the small but magnificent instances of grace in my life. And while illness is very difficult, it does bring one into a closer relationship with the ineffable... I often find that I am happiest with very little." In this reproduced notebook, comprising nineteen poems that were delivered as a Christmas gift to his art-and-heart-mate, Erin Currier, it is indeed grace and the ineffable that reside in its molten core. Tender, lyrical, elegiac, self-revelatory, and flashing traces of Hassett's deadpan wryness, these poems are a concise testament to a life unflaggingly devoted to love, creativity, and the mysteries dancing behind the veils, while proving that bardic voices do not disappear gently into that good night, but continue on, as lucid echoes and torchlights.