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    612-822-4611

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of the guardians

of the guardians

Ray, Robert E.

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798993684215
Publisher: R.E. Ray
Published: Nov 9 2025
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Robert E. Ray's of the guardians is a rigorous, luminous sequence of poems that names and remakes the moral vocabulary of public service. Arranged A to Z, each compact poem is a disciplined jewel that shines a light on courage, mercy, duty, and grief with a voice exacting and tender. These are poems of bearing: witnesses to the small mercies and vast costs of keeping watch, poems that move from street corners and morgues to county halls and sacred memory. Drawing on classical allusion, scriptural resonance, and hard-won observation, Ray holds a mirror to those who answer the call and to the nation they serve. Stark imagery and quietly searing argument converge in an ethical liturgy that honors sacrifice, demands accountability, and insists that the public trust is a living thing. Of the Guardians is elegy and education, prayer and indictment, a book for readers who want language tough enough to name danger and luminous enough to restore faith.

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