Upholding Mystery

Upholding Mystery An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry

Hardback (10 Apr 1997)

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From Andrew Hudgins's often humorous narratives to Geoffery Hill's darkly impassioned lyrics, from Denise Levertov's incisive personal and political insights to Wendell Berry's lovely evocations of the divine presence in nature, Upholding Mystery offers readers a wide range of both poetic and spiritual satisfactions. Featuring only poets who are currently writing - including such well-known poets as Richard Wilbur, Annie Dillard, Daniel Berrigan, Les Murray, and Louise Erdrich, along with the impressive though less-known voices of David Craig, Scott Cairns, and David Brendan Hopes - this superb anthology provides generous selections of work that is admirable equally for the stature of its verse and for its illumination of the Christian ethos. In addition, editor David Impastato provides brief, accessible introductions that highlight the specifically Christian concerns of the poems, and he organizes the book into sections dealing with such topics as The Cross, Transformation, Injustice, Presence, Praise, The Mystical Body, and so on, thereby giving the reader a coherent theological journey as well as the pleasurable experience of the individual poems. Here, then, is a contemporary encounter with Christian mystery, in poetry that is as vibrant, as compelling, and as meaningful as any being written today. David Impastato has done an invaluable service in showing that the transcendent is indeed alive and well in the hands of contemporary poets, despite reports to the contrary, and in gathering a dazzling array of poems that will appeal in equal measure to religious and literary readers alike.

Book information

ISBN: 9780195104004
Publisher: OUP USA
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.9140803823
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 369
Weight: 668g
Height: 148mm
Width: 226mm
Spine width: 35mm