Toward a Credo will blow a hole clear through you, and when you recover you will wonder how you could ever hold so much. George Eklund invites us to trace the contours of the mind where it meets the world, fault lines whose shiftings reveal the places where concept and feeling push against each other and spark the deepest underground fires. He asks us to consider a credo, a kind of seeing that begins with our vulnerabilities, moves through the damage from our losses and our ephemerality, and envisions the far ranges of the human heart. Eklund tears apart our linguistic expectations to reveal that within the shell of our ordinary grammar lies the hidden life of feeling which has an anatomy, a geology, a physics all its own. Here you will feel it—duende, the power of the feral imagination wed to the fury of emotion, yet rendered with rare tenderness and beauty. —Dan Butterworth, author of Waiting for Rain, The Clouds of Lucca, and forthcoming Drunken Man on a Bicycle