![]() The poems I suggest here are this moment’s choices, not “the best spiritual poems” (a phrase weighing nothing in so intimate and personal a context). If the poems are worth the cost of their ink, it can be done.īut, no, I’ve been asked to choose, to recommend. A useful exercise of soul would be to open any doorstop-sized anthology at random a dozen times and find in each of the resulting pages its spiritual dimension. ![]() ![]() Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams: all poets of spiritual life. Whatever lives on the breath, then, must have its spiritual dimension- including all poems, even the most unlikely. The root of “spirit” is the Latin spirare, to breathe.
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