Thick and dazzling darkness : religious poetry in a secular age / Peter O'Leary.
In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O'Leary offers a new reading of modern and contemporary poets' treatment of religion and the nature of the divine in a secular age. The book seeks to come to terms with an often obscured spiritual impulse that drives the production and imagination of A...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: religious poetry in a secular age
- A mystical theology of angelic despair: writing religious poetry and the trilogy of Frank Samperi
- Robinson Jeffers, the man from whom god hid everything
- Spiritual osmosis: Geoffrey Hill's recent poetry
- Prophetic frustrations: Robert Duncan's Tribunals
- What lies beneath my copy of eternity? religious language in the poetry of Lissa Wolsak
- Catholics: reading Fanny Howe
- Robert Duncan's celestial hierarchy
- The long-huthered hajj: Nathaniel Mackey's esotericism
- Apocalypticism: a way forward for poetry.