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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Side 3
... listening . The universe responds to his listening — if it can be called a response with hollow- ness . It answers his prayer of longing — if it can be called an an- swer - with nothingness . One is reminded of Rainer Maria Rilke's ...
... listening . The universe responds to his listening — if it can be called a response with hollow- ness . It answers his prayer of longing — if it can be called an an- swer - with nothingness . One is reminded of Rainer Maria Rilke's ...
Side 4
... listening . . . / you built a temple deep inside their hearing . " In Rilke's poem listening is met with silence , a silence that is filled with aliveness . In Kinnell's poem listening is met with nothing . An animal comes out of the ...
... listening . . . / you built a temple deep inside their hearing . " In Rilke's poem listening is met with silence , a silence that is filled with aliveness . In Kinnell's poem listening is met with nothing . An animal comes out of the ...
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... listening itself undergoes a transfor- mation in the poem . Where it is to begin with an imperative spoken urgently ... listening directed toward a program of action becomes a wish , a prayer , for a receptive listening open to the ...
... listening itself undergoes a transfor- mation in the poem . Where it is to begin with an imperative spoken urgently ... listening directed toward a program of action becomes a wish , a prayer , for a receptive listening open to 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