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In a 1985 interview with fellow poet John Kinsella, Kevin Hart reflected on the nature of poetry: "People sometimes think that the spiritual world is distinct from, even distant from, this world. . . . But the spiritual world is within this one: not as a secret, but as a radiance. . . . We find it through God's grace and our attention. Poetry is one form of attention, and poetry does not lead us to another world: it shows us this world, this relationship, this chair, this ivy on the outside wall." In Young Rain, Hart continues his exploration of the mysterious radiance within this world.
“Two poets within recent memory who tried to deal with the Christian world—poets who agonized over their faith, not just made mention of the doctrines—are Anne Sexton and Jane Kenyon. Kevin Hart joins their ranks in writing poems informed by a serious questioning of his beliefs. Many of the poems in this collection deal with temptation and the complexity of living in a world fraught with poles of positive and negative, good and bad, sin and redemption.” —Rain Taxi
Kevin Hart is Edwin B. Kyle professor of Christian Studies at the University of Virginia. The author of seven volumes of poetry, he is also the author or editor of a number of scholarly books, including Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).