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Upholding Mystery

Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry

by David Impastato

  • Hardback
  • 400 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.6 cm

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From Andrew Hudgins's often humorous narratives to Geoffery Hill's darkly impassioned lyrics, from Denise Levertov's incisive personal and political insights to Wendell Berry's lovely evocations of the divine presence in nature, Upholding Mystery offers readers a wide range of both poetic and spiritual satisfactions. Featuring only poets who are currently writing - including such well-known poets as Richard Wilbur, Annie Dillard, Daniel Berrigan, Les Murray, and Louise Erdrich, along with the impressive though less-known voices of David Craig, Scott Cairns, and David Brendan Hopes - this superb anthology provides generous selections of work that is admirable equally for the stature of its verse and for its illumination of the Christian ethos. In addition, editor David Impastato provides brief, accessible introductions that highlight the specifically Christian concerns of the poems, and he organizes the book into sections dealing with such topics as The Cross, Transformation, Injustice, Presence, Praise, The Mystical Body, and so on, thereby giving the reader a coherent theological journey as well as the pleasurable experience of the individual poems.Here, then, is a contemporary encounter with Christian mystery, in poetry that is as vibrant, as compelling, and as meaningful as any being written today. David Impastato has done an invaluable service in showing that the transcendent is indeed alive and well in the hands of contemporary poets, despite reports to the contrary, and in gathering a dazzling array of poems that will appeal in equal measure to religious and literary readers alike.
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  • Author

    David Impastato

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    April 1997

  • Weight

    645g

  • Page Count

    400

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195104004

  • ISBN-10

    0195104005

  • Eden Code

    1190435

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