Leaves of Water

Leaves of Water is Fr. Ralph Wright's sixth book of poetry. It contains twenty-eight new poems and selected poems from 1978-1992. Leaves of Water again shows Wright as a poet of great distinction whose work can delight and surprise the reader with his keen eye for observation and subtle sense of humor, while being inspirational and spiritual in the very best sense of these words. His poems evoke images both beautiful and startling. His metaphors are perceptive, his use of rhyme natural. Wright's gift lies in the unity of word and idea that is the essence of poetry and is expressed so well in the title poem.