A Music of Grace: The Sacred in Contemporary American PoetryP. Lang, 1995 - 135 sider In our mid-to-late twentieth century secular society, a most pressing theological question is, Where does the dimension of the sacred reside? The question is posed here through the poetic worlds of James Wright, Anne Sexton, and Galway Kinnell, each a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In the midst of collapsing values, these poets express a longing for a lost world of meaning. The author shows how each attempts to re-vision and re-language the sacred without resort to traditional piety. Lawrence's process poetics and Whitehead's process theology shed light on the question of the sacred and the poetic response. |
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... future into this moment here and now which lights up past and future . And in holding the strange - familiar other , one holds the mystery , the shimmering mystery that is simply the loved other . When two lovers hold the whole presence ...
... future into this moment here and now which lights up past and future . And in holding the strange - familiar other , one holds the mystery , the shimmering mystery that is simply the loved other . When two lovers hold the whole presence ...
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... future or need to be comforted . When the poet hears the music of grace , he is able to live fully in the present moment , that moment of simultaneous living and dying , and to live there with full appreciation for the gift of that ...
... future or need to be comforted . When the poet hears the music of grace , he is able to live fully in the present moment , that moment of simultaneous living and dying , and to live there with full appreciation for the gift of that ...
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... future , synthesizing in an entirely novel way what is with what is new , and leaving itself , the settled fact of its existence as a part of the life and memory of the universe . " The living plasm vibrates unspeakably , it inhales the ...
... future , synthesizing in an entirely novel way what is with what is new , and leaving itself , the settled fact of its existence as a part of the life and memory of the universe . " The living plasm vibrates unspeakably , it inhales the ...
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actual occasion Al Poulin American Anne Sexton appropriate reverence Auschwitz Awful Rowing becomes beginning Blessing Book of Nightmares collage creative creatures D. H. Lawrence despair dimension disillusionment elicits embrace feeling Galway Kinnell healing hear heart hit bottom holy ground Houghton Mifflin human Ibid incarnate inner nature instant interdependent James Wright Kinnell's language Lawrence's listening litany loneliness Lost My Sons Martins Ferry Mary Bly Matthew Fox modern mortal lives music of grace mystery Nathan Scott night occasion of experience oneself outer panentheism perfect perspective poet poet's poetic worlds poetry prayer of longing present Process and Reality process of assemblage process theology quick reality realized relationship Religion responsive intuition sacrament sacred reside self-restoring sense sheer appreciation sheer receptivity Sickness unto Death silence singing of mortal society spirit Things I Tell traditional University Press utterance vision voice water-lily Whitehead Whitman Wild Prayer words writes York