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The Lifted Veil
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Summary for The Lifted Veil, by John BeruttiPoems written between the years 1996 and 2003 by John Berutti, Ph.D., retired teacher of anthropology and lifelong cattle rancher. Arranged thematically rather than chronologically, the poems comprise a dark and challenging spiritual journey of discovery, recognition, and renewal; they chronicle the poets personal encounter with death through two major open-heart surgeries, in which the poet died clinically and now recalls his subjective experience of those events. Berutti explores the nature of relationships, the political world, and ultimately the deep roots of life through the spiritual lens developed in the poets encounter with death and the renewal of his faith.The volume is arranged into four sections encompassing the dark journey into the land of death and the painful and hazardous return, moving out to an ever expanding examination of the self and the larger world. The first section opens with a dedicatory poem to Johns wife Susan, a beautiful tribute to a profound and life-giving love, a poem which introduces and summarizes the whole. The poem that follows and initiates the journey constitutes a warning reminiscent of Greek drama--the fearful envoy from the darker side of the other world, the Hood in the Tree, pronounces his chilling and typically enigmatic invitation: Are you ready? ... ready to be rendered worthy /to disjoin the padlock of life? When the protagonist responds in the negative, the hood, implacable and unmoved, simply replies Ill be back. Following immediately upon the visit from the hood, the descent to the valley of the shadow begins in earnest, with A Visit to Purgatory and other poems chronicling the poets encounters with death through his surgery. And in the midst of all these frightening visions comes an envoy of life to match and counter the envoy of death. In the beautiful poem Wendell, a beloved horse, playful and charming, enters the vision and carries the protag
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