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Cries of Earth and Altar : Poems That Couldn’t Be Helped

By Charles L. Bartow

Book information

Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9781630876586, 9781625649461
LCC
PS3602.A8428 -- .B378 2014eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1320189 bytes)
Pages
140\0
Time added
2023-08-16 03:27:46
Christian poetry

Description

The poems of Cries of Earth and Altar speak of human laughter, mystery, work, play, sorrow--and even rage--as an oblation set upon heaven's high altar, which, as Calvin noted, is Christ himself. Upon that altar, the cries of earth are made a cry of glory, "Abba, Father" (Mark 14:36; Rom 8:15)! With the exception of those poems labeled "out of season," each poetic text is given a place in the Christian liturgical calendar: Advent-Epiphany, Transfiguration Sunday, Lent-Pentecost, and Ordinary Time. In the concluding essay, poetry and preaching are spoken of as fragile indicatives that implicitly call into question all claims of inviolability and permanence for humanly wrought systems of thought, common life, and governance. They survive as verbal, vocal, and physical gesture, as ink turned into blood.

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