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by Mark D. Bennion (Author)
In its own modest way, Beneath the Falls celebrates the archetypal journey of birth, death, and change. These poems grapple with upheaval and peace, tragedy and renewal, estrangement and conversion. This collection explores how belief is born in simplicity, mundaneness, struggle, and seeming irrelevancies. The complexities of faith then arise in the face of death, specifically the passing of situations, others, old selves, and our loved ones. Birth becomes death, which in turn creates birth again. Change happens both incrementally and immediately in this fascicle of poems, showing us God's ample mercies, vital nudgings, and watershed moments along life's way.
Author Biography
Mark D. Bennion teaches writing and literature courses in the English Department at Brigham Young University-Idaho. His poems have been published in Aethlon, The Lyric, RHINO, Windhover, and other journals. In addition to this book, he has authored two previous collections of poetry: Psalm & Selah: A Poetic Journey through the Book of Mormon and Forsythia. He and his wife, Kristine, are raising their children in the Upper Snake River Valley.
