Author: David Austell This newly revised second edition of Garuda in paperback explores faith and memory, and faith in memory. The title poem, "Garuda," is a plea for divine intervention in a world obsessed with empiricism, a world whose religions are ancient (and their relevancy in the 21st century increasingly questioned), but whose comforting truths are called upon in times of crisis and transcendence. The subsequent poems further explore memory and faith: male adolescence during the Cold War years...