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Sydney Lea

Six Sundays Toward a Seventh

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Description:These poems--selected from the award-winning poet's output over four decades--more explicitly than any of his prior volumes address the centrality of Christian vision to his aims and aspirations. Lea looks unflinchingly at all that may challenge his faith: the cruelties of both natural and human worlds, the attractions of jolly, good-hearted secularism, the distortions of doctrinaire religiosity, the seeming pointlessness of untimely deaths; but his faith in Christian redemption shines through even the bleakest of his poems.Endorsements:The life in Sydney Lea's poems is entirely local, whether the locale is Italy, Montana, or his… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-61097-681-7
  • EAN: 9781610976817
  • Produktnummer: 12489932
  • Verlag: Cascade Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 106 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.6 cm 167 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 167

Über den Autor


Sydney Lea lately retired after more than forty years of teaching at Dartmouth, Yale, Wesleyan, and Middlebury Colleges, as well as at several European universities. Lea was a Pulitzer finalist for his volume of poems Pursuit of a Wound, and won the 1998 Poets' Prize. He holds the doctorate in Comparative Literature from Yale. Recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Fulbright Foundations, he founded and for thirteen years edited New England Review, one of the nation's leading literary quarterlies. This is his tenth volume of poems; he is also author of a novel, A Place in Mind, and two collections of naturalist essays, Hunting the Whole Way Home and A Little Wildness. He is currently the poet laureate of the state of Vermont.

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