Mercy Wears a Red Dress
The work of a wonderful secular poet, Billy Collins, provides a great model for Christian writers. His Coleridge conversation poems allow for real play and comedy, all in the service of profundity. These are veins that have not been suitably mined by poets who have access to the larger humanity that only Jesus can provide. But there's more than comedy in this collection. The Sorrows of Mary offer a sober truth, as do the four Gospel sonnets; both sections provide a bracing interlude before we get back to high-spirited comedy in the St. Anthony poems--where the sainted speaker disdains direction and instead carries on about whatever is on his…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5326-0804-9
- EAN: 9781532608049
- Produktnummer: 30235235
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 148 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'191 KB
Über den Autor
David Craig is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Mary's House, and two works of fiction. He has also coedited three collections of Christian poetry with Janet McCann. He is a professor of English at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he has been blessed to teach creative writing students for twenty-five years.
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