A Slender Grace: Poems - Brossura

Jellema, Roderick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0802827829 ISBN 13: 9780802827821

Casa editrice: Eerdmans Pub Co, 2004

Riassunto

A Slender Grace is Rod Jellema's first collection of poetry since his highly praised The Eighth Day appeared almost twenty years ago. In this volume, which consists of 67 poems, almost all of them new, Jellema confronts a culture that loves bigness with poems that notice what is slender -- the thin lines, the threads by which some things hang, the narrow crevices through which divine grace offers to reconcile humans to each other and to the Creator.

These beautifully crafted pieces are not "religious poems" in the usual sense. As Jellema explains, "These poems individually are not spiritual message-bearers. Still, it is inevitable that my belief in a beautiful world that is broken and divinely redeemed -- though I am not preaching about it -- should be evident throughout." And it is, as Jellema takes a second, deeper look at such things as green beans in all their glory, a lovesick lonely young man in a Laundromat, and his own sense of the world while snorkeling in the Red Sea.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Rod Jellema is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. His award-winning poetry has appeared in three previous collections: Something Tugging the Line, The Lost Faces, and The Eighth Day: New and Selected Poems.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Eerdmans Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0802827829
• ISBN 13: 9780802827821
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 116
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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