Lacunae (eBook)

New Poems

Scott Cairns (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
112 Seiten
Paraclete Press (Verlag)
978-1-64060-882-5 (ISBN)

Infos

 This is a book to savor slowly and return to often." —Malcolm Guite, author of Sounding the Seasons and other collections
New poetry from Scott Cairns on containing the uncontainable

Often, when speaking of what he has called the poetic operation of language, Scott Cairns has characterized that event as our "glimpsing an indeterminate, inexhaustible enormity within a discrete space." This is the poet's continuing fascination with lacunae, those spaces, those openings that offer more within than appearances can register from outside the ostensible covert of their terms. Cairns is here focused upon how an image, a word, or—in the case of the Theotokos—a womb can contain the uncontainable. As Orthodox hymnography avers, she is more spacious than the heavens. So, too, the poet suggests, in its own, modest way, the poem might give birth to more, and more, and yet more than even the poet supposes.

Autor

Librettist, essayist, translator, and author of ten poetry collections, Scott Cairns is Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Missouri. His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Image, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2023
• Verlagsort: ORLEANS
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Christ-centered contemplative verse • Christian interior life poetry • Christian metaphysical poetry • Christian mystical poetry • contemplative Christian poetry • contemplative prayer poems • contemporary religious poetryChristian contemplative poetry • devotional poetry for Christians • divine mystery poems • faith and language poetry • faith and silence poetry • Greek Orthodox poetry • Lacunae Scott Cairns • literary sacred poetry • liturgical poetry collection • meditative religious poetry • modern Christian poets • mystical faith poems • Orthodox theology poems • poems about the ineffable • poems for spiritual growth • poems on the divine presence • poetic encounters with God • poetic meditation on God • poetic reflections on faith • poetic theology • poetry for quiet time with God • poetry inspired by scripture • poetry of divine mystery • poetry on kenosis • prayerful poetic meditation • sacred Christian verse • sacred mystery poetry • Scott Cairns poetry • soul-searching spiritual poetry • Spiritual poetry collection • spiritual reflection poetry • theological lyric poems • theological poetry meditation
• ISBN-10: 1-64060-882-6 / 1640608826
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64060-882-5 / 9781640608825