The Long Journey Out
Ebook
The poems in The Long Journey Out offer glimpses of the transcendent and ineffable--heightened rhapsodic perceptions arising from earlier, more empirical, observations. The world they describe is richly varied, culturally, spiritually, and linguistically. Yet threaded throughout his lyrical journey are these numinous moments, not yet explicable in doctrine but in empathic intuitions poetry can serve. Having learned from his travels, the journeyer is freed to return home, confident that despite our socioeconomic and political fractures, everyday human existence is grounded in a shared, sacred mystery.
“Ronald Okuaki Lieber is a seeker. He looks at the Earth and finds moments of transfiguration. He has his own way of seeing things that is both moral and physical. He doesn’t belong to any school. Since he is naturally observant, he is a poet of description—sad and truthful, tender and raw. The more I read his classically poised, languorous poems, the more disturbingly beautiful they seem.”
—Henri Cole, author of Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994–2022
“The poems in Ronald Okuaki Lieber’s first book create narrative richness of diverse worlds. His poems find the motion in stillness and the sound in silence and the light in darkness through a lyrical and mesmerizing voice describing a journey of questioning and observing. This is beautiful work, at once precise and direct and at the same time lush and evocative, poetry that lives up to the command to make it new.”
—Rebecca Weiner Tompkins, author of King of the Fireflies
“The poems in Ronald Okuaki Lieber’s The Long Journey Out root themselves first in settings rendered with such loving and attentive detail that they shimmer with significance. In poem after poem, the speaker grapples with what he sees—doing the work that we all need to do to embrace the fact that we can have no other life than the one we’ve lived and to learn how, because we are all going to die, to let that be enough.”
—Richard Jeffrey Newman, author of T’shuvah
- Title: The Long Journey Out
- Author: Ronald Okuaki Lieber
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666768695, 9781666768671, 1666768677, 9781666768688, 1666768685, 1666768693
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666768695
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-09-06T20:43:10Z
Ronald Okuaki Lieber is the son of two strong lineages, that of a Japanese mother and a Jewish American military man, and lived in fourteen localities the first fourteen years of his life as an army brat. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica before settling in NYC where he is a tenured professor at SUNY Nassau and a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice.