Playing with fire : Christian poets reflect on faith and practice / George David Clark & L.S. Klatt, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, George David

Klatt, L. S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

vii, 345 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waco, TX : Baylor University Press,

Contents:

Introduction: An unbearable light / L. S. Klatt

The white shoes of the evangelist: A poetics of the holy ghost / Bobby C. Rogers

Body-hunger, God-hunger, soul-cake / Lisa Russ Spaar

Shabby equipment / Aaron Belz

Listing creation: Cosmogenesis in the poem / Peter O’Leary

Things that are not / George David Clark

What is possible / Geoffrey Nutter

Pilgrimage to elsewhere and the empty page / Kiki Petrosino

A tap at the wall: A poetics of the in-between / Karen An-hwei Lee

Downward to darkness on extended wings: Practicing the Christian art of attention / Kaethe Schwehn

Wound and maze: Christian mysticism and poetry / G. C. Waldrep

Logic of the verb “to be” / Cate Lycurgus

Wrestling the angel: Faith as poetic process / Joshua Robbins

Holding the dark, darkening the bright / Carolina Ebeid

Body of bodies: Poems, trinities, and the many Magdalenes / Katy Didden

Living with God in the twenty-first century in the worn-out USA / Maurice Manning

Letter to a Christian Poet / John Poch

Fish in sewer water: The common enterprise of Christian poets / Lisa Ampleman

Hymn writing in/from/for a faith / Adam M. L. Tice

The sentimentality trap / Benjamin Myers

Say green, say new: Language as a renewable resource / L. S. Klatt

ISBN:

1481320750

9781481320757

OCLC:

1548256436