The Church of the Love of the World - Hardcoverby Grace Wells (Author) Things being so urgent, when you open a book its leaves should take you back to the forest they came from ('Vestige') So opens the first poem in Grace Wells' The Church of the Love of the World, a book that begs us to "only connect" as it explores our individual roles and the role of poetry itself in these troubling times. At once sure footed and curious, optimistic and on the brink of despair, as well as stand out lyric