The Chance of Home. Poems (2018)
- "It gives me great joy to read The Chance of Home; its gentle confidence fills me with hope. Often these poems put me into that serene Wordsworthian mood when I find I am 'become a living soul.' But they also confront silence, darkness and homelessness; in their evoking of song, they gather into themselves 'the most ancient of things,' understanding with Wallace Stevens that 'poetry is a part of the structure of reality.' [This] book beautifully manifests this truth as it provides a 'chance,' or song-filled sense, of home for the wandering soul on earth." Edward Clarke, poet and professor of English and creative writing at Oxford University
- "To read the poems in The Chance of Home is to take a walk with the saints, both the churched and the literary, and to see the sun-struck wonder of the world 'here below' through their and his eyes. Burrows is the gracious poet-guide on our journey. . ., revealing to us at every turn the 'glimpse of home in the ordinary of it all.' For home is both where we are and where we are heading in these poems as they paint the world we are lucky enough to inhabit, luminous and lit from within, a universe of mute beautiful things that somehow sing through the poet's loving and attentive acts of translation and celebation. Burrows' poems are delicate tunes, brief epiphanies, faithful assurances against the uncertainties of eternity. It is a joy to march in step with his song, to stand surrounded by that cloud of witnesses, to be in that number." Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, poet and professor at Fordham University
Meister Eckhart's Book of Secrets (2019)
- "Mark Burrows and Jon Sweeney achieve something quite rare and wonderful here. They make Eckhart clear, concise, and very compelling!" Richard Rohr, OFM, bestselling author, most recently, of The Universal Christ and The Divine Dance
- "Meister Eckhart's words dance and invite the reader into an intimate encounter with the divine. Reading these poems sets the heart ablaze and the spirit soaring." Christine Valters Paintner, bestselling author of, most recently, The Soul's Slow Ripening and Sacred Time: Embracing an Intentional Way of Life
- "In this volume, Burrows and Sweeney have once again distilled the poetic insight at the heart of Eckhart's oeuvre. Here is an invitation to the mystery that liberates." James A. K. Smith, editor-in-chief of the literary journal Image
Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart (2017)
- "In reading [this book], it again came to mind why I am so dawn to the poetry of Rumi, Hafiz, and Kabir. There is revelation in this book by Burrows and Sweeney. I sincerely feel it will help one look deeper into the eyes of Christ and know more of God's knowledge and love." Daniel Ladinsky, bestselling author of I Heard God Laughing
- "If for many of us a dose of Meister Eckhart is like a morning pot of coffee, this concentrated and poetic reduction is like a book full of double espresso shots--each is about as much as you can take in and metabolize in a day." Brother Paul Quenon, Abbey of Gethsemani, and author of Unquiet Vigil. Poems
Translator of Rainer Maria Rilke's Prayers of a Young Poet (2012/2016)
- "A powerful alchemy of the heart!" Bill Moyers, journalist, political commentator, and documentary film producer
- "This extraordinary early-draft form of some of Rilke's most famous poems somehow evokes, for me, Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks--it shows the same mix of surety, roughness, genius, and the sense of precipitous creative speed. Rilke's poetry always reminds us what a direct pondering of intimacy and depth might look like. I am most grateful for these muscular translations and Mark Burrows' extended introductory comments." Jane Hirshfield, award-winning poet and author, most recently, of Ledger. Poems
- "How perfect that Mark Burrows is as fine a scholar as he is a poet. His understanding of 'the young poet' is subtle and rare; his knowledge of Rilke's language and intentions is rich and deep. It is incredible that it's taken so long to have these prayers in a single song as they were intended, but every line in this exquisite collections rewards the wait." Stephanie Dowrick, author of In the Company of Rilke and Intimacy and Solitude
