Galactic Pilgrim

These poems, which examine the spiritual as well as the psychological effects of being a Christian, offer an amalgam of diverse yet related influences: John Donne’s “Holy Sonnets”; Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam A.H.H.; and Emily Dickinson’s “Behind me—dips Eternity—.”  Another significant source may also be apparent: the sonnet sequences of such Renaissance poets as Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, and William Shakespeare.  However, although the poems in Galactic Pilgrim genera