The Shimmering Absence: Meditations, Reflections, and Poems
By Donald S. Yarab

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84 Pages, 6in × 9in

The Shimmering Absence is a contemplative journey into the silence at the heart of faith. The Meditations, structured as a triptych—poetic, theological, and philosophical—explores the apophatic tradition: the practice of approaching the divine not through affirmation, but through reverent unknowing.

In language both elegant and restrained, Donald S. Yarab guides the reader through ancient and modern voices that have wrestled with the ineffable—Pseudo-Dionysius, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, Aquinas, Meister Eckhart, Maimonides, and others—revealing a tradition that speaks with wisdom precisely because it knows its limits. Each meditation moves deeper into silence, culminating in a final relinquishment of even the language of theology itself.

Accompanying the central triptych are poems and reflections—Refractions and Echoes—that arise from the silence the meditations open. These lyrical fragments extend the apophatic gesture through personal resonance, imaginative vision, and spiritual humility.

Written with scholarly depth and poetic sensitivity, The Shimmering Absence is not a theology of absence, but a theological absence: a space where mystery is not resolved but revered, where questions abide, and where wisdom begins in silence.

The Agglutivum: A Treatise on the Intransitive Voice
Transcribed and Edited with Glosses by Donald S. Yarab

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58 Pages, 6in × 9in

Born from a dream-word that emerged unbidden, The Agglutivum presents itself as the transcription of a lost medieval manuscript—a haunting work of speculative philology that explores language as autonomous presence rather than human tool. This meticulously crafted treatise introduces a radical theory of "agglutive" words that speak themselves rather than being spoken, received from being rather than intention. Through concepts like "voculae" (word-fragments appearing in dreams), "glosselitha" (fossilized words pulsing with ancient power), and "sublinguare" (the art of speaking without voice), the work constructs an entire metaphysics of utterance. Complete with scholarly apparatus, marginalia spanning centuries, and a comprehensive philosophical glossary, this literary creation reads like genuine intellectual archaeology while addressing urgently contemporary questions about the degradation and sacredness of language. Part mystical theology, part linguistic philosophy, part imaginative scholarship, The Agglutivum offers both a mirror to our current crisis of meaning and a path toward what the text calls "the still language that speaks after all others fall silent." A work of profound erudition disguised as historical recovery, it generates the kind of interpretive depth usually reserved for genuinely ancient texts.