Compass of Affection: Poems New And Selected - Rilegato

Cairns, Scott

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ISBN 10: 1557255032 ISBN 13: 9781557255037

Casa editrice: Paraclete Pr, 2006

Riassunto

In this provocative collection, rich with expression and dense with meaning, Scott Cairns expresses an immediate, incarnate theology of God’s power and presence in the world. Spanning thirty years and including selections from four of his previous collections,Compass of Affection illuminates the poet’s longstanding engagement with language as revelation, and with poetry as way of discovery.

For those who already admire the poetry of Scott Cairns and for those who have yet to be introduced, this essential volume presents the best of his work – the holy made tangible, love made flesh, and theology performed rather than discussed.

Praise for Scott Cairns’ work

“Scott Cairns [is] perhaps the most important and promising religious poet of his generation.”—Prairie Schooner

“The voice of Cairns is conversational and coaxing—confiding in us secrets that seem to be our own.”
—Publishers Weekly

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L'autore:

Librettist, memoirist, translator, and author of seven poetry collections, Scott Cairns is Professor of English at University of Missouri, and is founding director of Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki/Thasos, a program now in its seventh year bringing students—as well as unaffiliated writers—to Greece every June.  His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Image, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, etc., and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing.  He is a regular blogger for the Religion Section of The Huffington Post, and contributes a podcast, Flesh Becomes Word, for Ancient Faith Radio.  He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.  His new projects includeDescent to the Heart, a new translation of excerpts from the Greek Philokalia.

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• Editore: Paraclete Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1557255032
• ISBN 13: 9781557255037
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 161