Finding the world's fullness : on poetry, metaphor, and mystery / Robert Cording.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cording, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Religious aspects.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (133 pages)

Place of Publication:

2019.

Seattle, WA : Slant Books, [2019]

Summary:

Forty years as a poet has kept Robert Cording looking at the details of everyday experience. That long labor has brought him face-to-face with the inescapable complexity of a world that is full of suffering and injustice. And grace. This journey has convinced him that, as Czeslaw Milosz puts it, "poetry embodies the double life of our common human circumstance as beings in between the dust that we are and the divinity to which we would aspire." Cording's task has therefore been to evoke what he calls "the primordial intuitions of Christianity": that we live in a world we did not create; that God's immanent presence is capable of breaking in on us at every moment; that most of the time we cannot "taste and see" that presence because we live in a world of mirrors; that only by attention can we live in the world but outside of our existing conceptions of it. The reflections in Finding the World's Fullness--comprising not only thoughts on metaphor but also close readings of poets ancient and modern, including George Herbert, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Bishop, and Stanley Kunitz--suggest that, as Richard Wilbur puts it, "The world's fullness is not made but found."

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Books By Robert Cording

Preface

The Readiness Is All

Finding the "World's Fullness"

Cloud Shapes and Oak Trees

Acts of Attention

Love Calls Us to One World at a Time

"To Discover an Order as of a Season"

The Longest Day

The Revolt Against Narcissus

On Poetry and Reading the Bible

The Art of Devotion

Something More

Metaphors To Live In

A Certain Young Man

Mystery

On Poets and Poetry

The Otherworldliness of Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop and George Herbert

On George Herbert's "Jordan 2"

Stanley Kunitz

Browning's Villains

David Ferry

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Cording, Robert Finding the World’s Fullness

ISBN:

1-63982-026-4

OCLC:

1292356722