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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... the player invents new rules or makes up a new game . When one's values are only grounded in oneself , there is nothing to give them permanence . 18 The radical subjectivism into which society has been thrust PRAYER OF LONGING 9.
... the player invents new rules or makes up a new game . When one's values are only grounded in oneself , there is nothing to give them permanence . 18 The radical subjectivism into which society has been thrust PRAYER OF LONGING 9.
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... the most ultimate realities , Heidegger believes , philosophy must give way to poetry . The poet discloses the things and creatures of this world " in " 28 In a the starkness and strangeness of their 12 A MUSIC OF GRACE.
... the most ultimate realities , Heidegger believes , philosophy must give way to poetry . The poet discloses the things and creatures of this world " in " 28 In a the starkness and strangeness of their 12 A MUSIC OF GRACE.
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... plate , cup upon each morning . All this is God right here in my pea - green house each morning and I mean , though often forget , to give thanks , to faint down by the kitchen table in a prayer ANNE SEXTON : FALLEN ANGEL 43.
... plate , cup upon each morning . All this is God right here in my pea - green house each morning and I mean , though often forget , to give thanks , to faint down by the kitchen table in a prayer ANNE SEXTON : FALLEN ANGEL 43.
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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