At the Mercy Seat

This collection of poems explores how the relentlessness of mercy permeates the natural world, our domesticity and our relationships, and opens them to mystery. This is a book about thresholds: the meeting places of silence and language, suburbia and coastal wilderness, the seemingly disparate worlds of parent and child, husband and wife. Whether the poems reclaim biblical stories or the voices of McCaslin's poetic progenitors, they are compelling and finely nuanced events leading to a contemplative being-in-the-world.