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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... stand caught in between two images of the universe : the two - story universe , with the benevolent Big Daddy who has failed us ; and the absurd universe , in which all our cries are met with silence . We are unable to embrace either of ...
... stand caught in between two images of the universe : the two - story universe , with the benevolent Big Daddy who has failed us ; and the absurd universe , in which all our cries are met with silence . We are unable to embrace either of ...
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... stand firmly in the tradition of the " poetry of the present . " 2 And the " poetry of the present , " as exemplified in their poetic works and worlds , offers a clue in way of response to the " wild prayer of longing " which echoes in ...
... stand firmly in the tradition of the " poetry of the present . " 2 And the " poetry of the present , " as exemplified in their poetic works and worlds , offers a clue in way of response to the " wild prayer of longing " which echoes in ...
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... stand or fall , like other truths , " he said , “ by their success in this interpretation . " 3 Whitehead spent the latter part of his life amplifying particular instances of truth into a coherent system - one which would stand or fall ...
... stand or fall , like other truths , " he said , “ by their success in this interpretation . " 3 Whitehead spent the latter part of his life amplifying particular instances of truth into a coherent system - one which would stand or fall ...
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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