Between the Joints & the Marrow is an imaginative guided tour of the Bible. Book by book, moments are projected onto the wall like scenes from Bunyan’s House of the Interpreter. Figures are lifted from the pages of Scripture and set down again between the cold and echoing walls of a morgue, in the switchbacks of a desert canyon, and on the chest of sleeping child. These poems affirm the strange truth that the symbolic is the greatest opponent of the diabolic.
There isn’t anything affected in either Garrett Soucy’s singing voice or his literary style. Both are spare as a cabin in the Maine woods, a cast iron stove in the corner for heat, but also for hardness. Sometimes when walking, one comes upon the remnants of such a place, a chimney that has out-lasted its house. That’s these poems: compelling, comfortable, and classic as brick.
Mischa Willett, author of Phases and The Elegy Beta
Garrett Soucy’s densely allusive, rugged poems surprise with twists on biblical themes, vivid moments of prayer and praise, sharp and shocking images. A memorable collection that penetrates the soul.
Peter Leithart, president of Theopolis Institute
In an age that has lost any compelling sense of the reality of grace or the immanence of hope, poetry like Garrett Soucy’s can give us eyes to see that, in spite of everything, we do live in a meaningful world. Running the gamut from honest lament to tender joy, these poems illuminate an elusive but visible path from shared brokenness to common grace.
Heidi White, author of The Divided Soul
Garrett Soucy
lives in rural Maine with his wife and eleven children where he pastors Christ the King Church. His poetry has appeared in Aesthetica, Ekstasis, Second Nature Journal, and elsewhere. His poem “Hellmouth” was shortlisted for the 2023 Aesthetica Award in Creative Writing. Garrett is also a musician.