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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... wrote , " The quick of all time is the instant . The quick of all the universe , of all creation , is the incarnate , carnal self . " Just as we have yet to recognize fully the mystery of the instant , so we have yet to recognize fully ...
... wrote , " The quick of all time is the instant . The quick of all the universe , of all creation , is the incarnate , carnal self . " Just as we have yet to recognize fully the mystery of the instant , so we have yet to recognize fully ...
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... wrote . We can " get rid of the stereotyped movements and the old hackneyed associa- tions . " We can break down the artificialities of rhyme and of meter which we so love to force upon our utterances . We can " break the stiff neck of ...
... wrote . We can " get rid of the stereotyped movements and the old hackneyed associa- tions . " We can break down the artificialities of rhyme and of meter which we so love to force upon our utterances . We can " break the stiff neck of ...
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... wrote . Art deals with the realm of the unanalyzable " more , " with the realm of direct intuition . Literature , he said , emphasizes " explicitly the fundamental emotional importance of our naive general intu- itions . " It uses words ...
... wrote . Art deals with the realm of the unanalyzable " more , " with the realm of direct intuition . Literature , he said , emphasizes " explicitly the fundamental emotional importance of our naive general intu- itions . " It uses words ...
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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