Book I:Dawn’s Opening Page is the inaugural movement in The Arc of Perennial Equinox—a sustained poetic exploration of love, beauty, memory, and the conditions for awakening. These verses, luminous yet grounded, intimate yet cosmically aware, open a space where the sensual meets the spiritual and perception becomes ceremony.
Here, dawn is not simply an hour—it is a way of seeing. Each
poem is an initiation: a threshold through which the reader may re-enter the
sacred dimensions of experience.
Drawing on ancient myth, classical form, and the tenderest inflections of the
lyric voice, this book invites the reader to recognize what the modern world
often forgets: that language, when truly heeded, can still name what is
eternal.
This is poetry that doesn’t perform—it listens. It doesn’t confess—it communes.
It asks not for applause, but for remembrance.
Dawn’s Opening Page began not as a project, but as a condition—something nearer
to breath or presence than to plan. It emerged in moments where silence was not
empty, but full—where beauty’s arrival seemed like a whisper across time, or a
long-forgotten vow suddenly remembered.
The poems in this book are part of a larger arc—The Arc of Perennial Equinox—which
seeks not merely to write about the sacred, but to write with it. That is, with
reverence, clarity, and an attentiveness to what often goes unseen: the subtle
gestures, the knowing gaze, the rhythms beneath thought.
This book honors dawn not as metaphor but as rhythm, as psychic
and spiritual event. If there is a muse here, she is not ornamental. She is the
one who keeps watch at the threshold, ensuring that each poem steps forward in
sincerity and with care.
Vladimir Suchan, born in 1961 in Ostrov nad Ohří, is a Czech poet, philosopher, and dedicated anti-fascist political thinker. A former diplomat and professor of political philosophy with a Ph.D. from Carleton University, he has published eleven Czech poetry collections. His work blends confessional lyricism with imagistic precision, mapping the soul’s journey from love’s dawn to transcendent depths.
