Christian Poetry in America Since 1940 (eBook)

An Anthology

Micah Mattix, Sally Thomas (Herausgeber)

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2022
35 Seiten
Paraclete Press (Verlag)
978-1-64060-724-8 (ISBN)

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Winner of the 2023 Christianity Book Award — Culture & The Arts!

"One of the best, and least expected, anthologies in decades." —Joseph Bottum, Poetry editor, New York Sun

Showcasing thirty-five American poets born in or after 1940, this anthology confirms that one of the most vibrant developments in contemporary verse has been a renewed engagement with the Christian faith. Across a full spectrum of Christian belief, including the struggle to believe at all, these poets bring the power of their art to bear on serious questions: how to understand the goodness of God in a fallen and tragic world, how to reconcile universal truths with the particularities of human experience, how to render familiar events of salvation history in new language that generates its own epiphanies.  As Christian engagement assumes a multiplicity of modes and voices, so does contemporary poetry in America. This volume, then, selective yet representative, features the work of early-, mid-, and late-career poets, formalists, free-verse poets, and experimenters in prosody. This anthology bears witness to the poetic mind as it seeks that which is above.  

Autor

Micah Mattix is the poetry editor at First Things and an associate professor of English at Regent University. His criticism has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Criterion, National Review, Humanities, and many other outlets. Previously he was the literary editor at The American Conservative and a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard. He is currently a senior editor at Spectator World and the author of The Soul Is a Stranger in this World: Essays on Poets and Poetry. Sally Thomas is the author of a poetry collection, Motherland, a finalist for the 2018 Able Muse Book Award and published by Able Muse Press in 2020. She is also the author of a novel, Works of Mercy, published by Wiseblood Books in 2022. Over the last three decades, her poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in such journals as First Things, Plough Quarterly, Public Discourse, and the New Yorker. She serves as Associate Poetry Editor for the New York Sun.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.9.2022
• Verlagsort: ORLEANS
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: American poetry • A.M. Juster • andrew hudgins • Angela Alaimo O'Donnell • Benjamin Myers • best Christian poetry • best gifts for Christians • best poetry anthology • Brett Foster • Bruce Beasley • Chelsea Wagenaar • Christian Literature • Christian poetry • Christian poetry books • Christian poetry collection • Christian Wiman • Christian writing • Clare Rossini • Dana Gioia • David Middleton • Diane Glancy • Franz Wright • James Matthew Wilson • Jay Parini • Jeanne Murray Walker • Jennifer Reeser • John Poch • Julia Spicher Kasdorf • Kathleen Norris • Marilyn Nelson • Marjorie Maddox • Mark Jarman • Mark Wagenaar • Marly Youmans • Maryann Corbett • Modern American poets • modern poetry books • Paul Mariani • Poetry • poetry anthology • poetry collection • poetry collections • poetry of faith • recent American poems • Robert B. Shaw • Ryan Wilson • Scott Cairns • Shane McCrae • spiritual poems • Tania Runyan • theological poetry • thoughtful Christian books • Timothy Murphy • Tracy K. Smith • William Baer
• ISBN-10: 1-64060-724-2 / 1640607242
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64060-724-8 / 9781640607248