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The Golden Underground takes its title from a section of Wallace Stevens's poem "Sunday Morning." Like "Sunday Morning," The Golden Underground offers a blend of the mythic and the religious as award-winning poet Anthony Butts records his search for meaning and understanding in everyday life. In this profound volume, Butts observes the relationships around him, including those of families and larger communities, to give a fittingly down-to-earth interpretation of the golden rule. The Golden Underground continues Butts's tradition of presenting spiritual ideas to the forefront of American letters with classicism and complexity. Butts's roots as a native Detroiter are evident as a great number of poems take place in various Michigan locales, including metro Detroit, Kalamazoo, and Grand Rapids. A mythic section revolves around a recurring character known as the Lady of the Lake, with the particular lake being Lake Michigan. The religious portion of the book concerns itself with ancient Celtic spirituality, when the Irish were some of the foremost thinkers in the early Catholic Church. In fact, each poem in the final section of the book, "Pygmalion," was written after meditating at s

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Author

Butts, Anthony.

Publisher

Wayne State University Press; Wayne State Univ Pr

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814333891

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14