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At one point he writes, “I’m done with, by the way, / the whole concept of soul.” He insists, “I’m a licked Christian.” And yet in his final poem, “Epilogue,” he writes: The more I feel the more I ...
But we can pay tribute to the extraordinary Christian poetry that he left us. It is not a cozy, pious poetry. Thomas is often called the “poet of the hidden God.” Poem after poem finds him kneeling in ...
The book contains poems written about God (or as if they came to us from God) from Christian mystics (e.g. Catherine of Sienna, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, St. Francis Assisi, Meister ...
In the second class, we looked at the poetry of the Jesuit saint and martyr, St. Robert Southwell, discussing his connections with, and his influence on, William Shakespeare.
Eliot’s work, both poetry and prose, although the poetry alone can be considered here, has a peculiar significance for the Christian, whether he be theologian, preacher, or layman, for Eliot has ...
But where the poem, and even more often the prose, frames this emotion within a religious scaffold, it is almost always toward a monotheistic, and Christian, God. The poems in this collection hail ...
Poems serve as a call to observing the minutest details of life, of recognizing significance in smallness, of noticing the humanity within one another. Poems can thus crystallize how, as Wiman noted, ...
Christian Wiman: I have found it a relief to not be talking about God and found it helpful to take that word out of circulation for a bit. I almost feel like it would be helpful for us as a culture if ...
Christian Wiman's new essay collection, My Bright Abyss, ... In her poem, "God Works in a Mysterious Way," Brooks calls on God to "Step forth in splendor, mortify our wolves, ...
The first poem in Carter’s book, “God’s Rhyme,” was written in 1972 — on a typewriter. The book will be available on Kindle. ... a publisher of Christian books based in Mustang, Oklahoma.