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Blowing Clover, Falling Rain

by Helms W. Travis Helms

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Pickwick Publications
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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The field of theopoetics explores the ways in which we ""make God"" (present)--particularly through language. This book explores questions of theopoetics as they relate to the central poetry of the American Sublime. It offers a fresh, theological engagement with what literary critic Harold Bloom terms the American religion (transcendentalism: Emerson's homespun mysticism). Specifically, it seeks to rehabilitate Emerson's concept of self-reliance from the charge of gross egoism, by situating it in the context of normative mysticisms Eastern and Western. It undertakes a more poetic approach to reading theologically-inflected poetry, by exegeting four poets collectively constituting Bloom's American religious ""canon"" Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, and Hart Crane. It utilizes a modified version of the ancient fourfold allegorical mode of reading Scripture, to draw out theological dimensions of four quintessential texts (Nature, ""Song of Myself,"" ""Sunday Morning,"" ""Lachrymae Christi""), in order to offer a more imaginative way of reading imaginative writing. Building on Emerson's contention, ""just as there is creative writing, there is creative reading,"" and Bloom's claim, ""a theory of poetry . . . must be poetry, before it can be of any use in interpreting poems,"" it demonstrates the unique, viable ways in which poems are able to ""do"" theology--and perform or embody theopoetic truths.
Blowing Clover, Falling Rain and Reflections for Daily Prayer Advent 2024 to Christ the King 2025
Reflections for Daily Prayer Advent 2024 to Christ the King 2025Blowing Clover, Falling Rain

  • Author

    Helms W. Travis Helms

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Pickwick Publications

  • Published

    November 2020

  • Weight

    318g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781725258402

  • ISBN-10

    1725258404

  • Eden Code

    5506351

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