The Garden of Wordlessness brings together in a single volume the author’s own selection of his published poems from 1992 to 2004. Taken collectively, the poems describe a narrative arc that follows the dark and frenzied movement of the suffering self to the shapely distractions of the world and back, even as this same journey truly begins and ends in the garden of words that is the body. This is the same place where the soul dares to stake its affectional home, claiming everything and nothing, by turns shading into flower and shadow, trepidation and desire, fruit-bearing death and breathing life. Here, underneath the verdure of the body’s figures, the soul speaks without words, whose voice is silence and light.