Descent, Ascent, Transfiguration

This collection of poems is a series categorized within each word of the title: Descent, Ascent, Transfiguration. The collection illuminates a disordered, darkened mind--akin to Hell--suffering leading toward joy, and finally breaking through to a transfiguring perspective of the world. The poems' intent is Dantean, touching on the tensions of life, death, suffering and pain, despair, hope, sin, r...