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Kevin Hart is not only one of Australia's most important poets but a major figure in world poetry. He is a visionary writer who has taken his bearings as much from English Romanticism and European Modernism as from the Bible, Plato, and Meister Eckhart.
In Morning Knowledge, Kevin Hart grieves the passing of his father, while continuing his unique interlacing of the spiritual and the sensuous. A book of elegies and love poems, prayers and lullabies, a book in which poems sing about a museum of shadows and about rats and afternoons, all wrapped in quatrains, Morning Knowledge is a major book by a poet read and loved throughout the world.
“The key event behind many of these poems is the death of the poet’s father, a subject to which Hart turns frequently in this volume but which he balances with memories of his Australian childhood and his family, meditations on the passing seasons, spiritual reflections in verse, and even elegies on rodents. Though his tone is generally serious, the somberness of his poems is often interwoven with welcome wit.” —Religion and the Arts
Kevin Hart is an Anglo-Australian theologian, philosopher and poet. He is currently Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Virginia. He has received multiple awards for his poetry, including the Christopher Brennan Award and the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry twice. teaches at the University of Virginia. He is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including Young Rain (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009).