In Beautiful Razor, Al Hunter explores the span between the sensual and the profane; the distance of which can sometimes be vast or on the razor's edge. This much-awaited collection is the third poetry book written by the former Rainy River First Nations Chief, along with Spirit Horses and The Recklessness of Love.
"In this fluid collection we enter a galactic expanse where absence, distance and fire repel and attract lovebodies in a winged-whirl of magnetic mad flight. Loss, emptiness, space, desire, blood, memory; all devour themselves in the combustions of love without self. The you/other may be interchangeable, never static or frozen or attainable. In these sharp-beaked bird-worlds there is 'no going back' - at best, bodies meet only 'flame to flame,' mutable and razor-like in feathery, impermanent forms. I find Hunter's new work a rare melding of Blues, Kabbalah and personal transcendence - a piercing, hard-won angelic love mantra. A blazing tour de force!"
-- Juan Felipe Herrera (California Poet Laureate).
"What lies here are the vagaries of a heart wounded, shattered, and redeemed by love. Such generosity of spirit deserves acclaim. A bravura work." - Richard Wagamese (author of Indian Horse)