“The word metanoia (typically translated as ‘repentance’) actually means ‘Go into the larger mind.’ In that sense, Skip Renker’s new collection is a profound act of metanoia; it bears witness to a human being ‘caught in the act’ of waking up, learning to pay attention from the heart. Clearly detectible beneath the sparse, Zenlike surface of these poems are those deeper shafts of light emerging from a growing compassion, gentleness, and a wry, self- deprecating humor that somehow manages to ‘hold all things in unity.’” —Cynthia Bourgeault