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Welcome Center - Paperback

by Justin den Herder
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Availability:In StockContributor:Justin den HerderPublish date:12/1/2025Pages:82
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Delere PressISBN-13:9789819444120ISBN-10:9819444128UPC:9789819444120Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Writing, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Poetry, Animals & NatureSize:8.25 x 5.50 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SCCA38KPTT

In Welcome Center, Justin Den Herder crafts a luminous, compassionate poetic landscape where the spiritual intersects with the everyday, and wonder is not a rarity but a practice. These poems gather readers at the brink of mystery and memory, teasing out the transformative potential of presence.

Structured in five parts, the book is arranged like a hike through strata of human experience from the natural to the divine. It posits that welcome is a fundamental and defining characteristic of being human.

These poems believe in the power of attention and mercy. In a world obsessed with motion and achievement, Welcome Center makes a radical gesture; it asks us to center ourselves by pausing and witnessing. 'Maybe appreciation is our purest action'.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Delere PressISBN-13:9789819444120ISBN-10:9819444128UPC:9789819444120Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Writing, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Poetry, Animals & NatureSize:8.25 x 5.50 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SCCA38KPTT
Den Herder, Justin: - Justin Den Herder is a practicing structural engineer in New York City. Poetry is a practice through which Justin views the world. Treat every interaction as though you were being asked to write a poem about it. Justin loves trees, cycling, climbing, and dogs. Welcome Center is his first book of poems.
Publisher: Delere Press

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