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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... heart . " Sexton finally has be- come quiet enough to listen with the receptivity she had wished for in " The Children " and to hear . The heart is the " door " Sexton had hoped to find " somewhere - up there . " And one need not ride ...
... heart . " Sexton finally has be- come quiet enough to listen with the receptivity she had wished for in " The Children " and to hear . The heart is the " door " Sexton had hoped to find " somewhere - up there . " And one need not ride ...
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... heart , but I grew , I grew , ... Here we have the origins of self - loathing and the deadening of the heart . ... and God was there like an island I had not rowed to , still ignorant of Him , my arms and my legs worked , and I grew , I ...
... heart , but I grew , I grew , ... Here we have the origins of self - loathing and the deadening of the heart . ... and God was there like an island I had not rowed to , still ignorant of Him , my arms and my legs worked , and I grew , I ...
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... hearts of those " sensitives " of our age , the poets . They sing , or intone , for us , " thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears . " 34 And , although the heart - felt longing of our age may partake of that heart - felt ...
... hearts of those " sensitives " of our age , the poets . They sing , or intone , for us , " thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears . " 34 And , although the heart - felt longing of our age may partake of that heart - felt ...
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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