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In Perpetuum
by david Jones
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 21st July, 2008
ISBN: 978-1-906018-54-2
Price: €15
In Perpetuum is the the poetic journal of a Welsh Monk. Musings in a medieval cloister. 1995-2000
“Beauty will save the world” - Dostoevskij
What beauty? That which Fr David Jones’ poetry offers us. A man who knows the voice of silence, having lived at La Trappe, where silence makes the most intimate cords vibrate. A monk who knows the sufferings of man, becuase his heart came out of La Trappe wide open to take in and console – as few know how to do – those wounds that deeply hurt, but also to share and keep those touches of sublime and secret nobility that Humanity at times is capable of giving.
A man who knows how to draw from the treasury of tradition (Welsh, English, Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Italian) things both old and new. Great, ever new, is the value that the reader discovers in reading each one of Fr David’s poems: it is the value of Truth, tinged with intense interior experience, with a very rich culture, with a sensitivity ever so human.
- Dr Lucia Mu
From: What is this Life?
There is too much to do on earth, and more
Than need be done is done by all that do
Too much to do all well, for this one law
Of patient moments old, that ancients knew,
