S P I R I T B O O K W O R D - an inquiry into literature and spirituality
J.S. Porter
Born in Belfast and educated in Canada, J.S. Porter is a passionate and omnivorous reader. An accomplished poet, critic and teacher, his poems, articles, reviews and essays have appeared in Grail, The Antigonish Review, Quarry, Brick, The Hamilton Spectator, The Ottawa Citizen, The National Post, The
Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada. He currently teaches literature at Mohawk College in Hamilton. This is his official website.
...from Eric Mader-Lin (Eric Mader), an American in Taiwan, September 26, 2009
“Fast-moving and deep”
“[Porter’s] sentences tend to be short, pugilistic even, but there is a concrete depth of reference, at times a great lyricism, at others pathos, at others a learned shortland. Spirit Book Word reads quickly, in a conversational manner, and yet it reaches great depths…Porter has the odd persuasive power of a man speaking directly to you, willing to tell you straight out what matters most to him…”
Eric Mader-Lin teaches English in Taipei and is the author of A Taipei Mutt. The novel is {available from Amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/Taipei-Mutt-Eric-Mader-lin/dp/0935086293). Read more of his review at Clay Testament…
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