A review by ohnepty
God's Silence by Franz Wright

4.0

this poetry collection has fallen into my life so unexpectedly and accidentally that i feel almost intimidated by how much i loved it. can't recall when was the last time i experienced "the right book at the right time" so vividly. here's one of the poems that will stay in my heart for quite some time

"THE READER

The mask was gone now, burned away
(from inside)
by God's gaze
There was no
I, there
was no he—
finally
there was no text, only
what the words stood for;
and then
what all things stand for."