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About this book
Winner of the 2023 Christianity Book Award ā Culture & The Arts!
"One of the best, and least expected, anthologies in decades." āJoseph 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.Ā As Christian engagement assumes a multiplicity of modes and voices, so does contemporary poetry in America.Ā This volume, then,Ā selectiveĀ yetĀ representative, featuresĀ the work of early-, mid-, and late-careerĀ poets,Ā formalists, free-verse poets, and experimenters in prosody.Ā This anthology bears witness to the poetic mind as itĀ seeks that which is above.Ā Ā
"One of the best, and least expected, anthologies in decades." āJoseph 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.Ā As Christian engagement assumes a multiplicity of modes and voices, so does contemporary poetry in America.Ā This volume, then,Ā selectiveĀ yetĀ representative, featuresĀ the work of early-, mid-, and late-careerĀ poets,Ā formalists, free-verse poets, and experimenters in prosody.Ā This anthology bears witness to the poetic mind as itĀ seeks that which is above.Ā Ā
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Paul Mariani (1940)
- Diane Glancy (1941)
- Jeanne Murray Walker (1944)
- Marilyn Nelson (1946)
- Robert B. Shaw (1947)
- Kathleen Norris (1947)
- William Baer (1948)
- Jay Parini (1948)
- David Middleton (1949)
- Dana Gioia (1950)
- Maryann Corbett (1950)
- Timothy Murphy (1951-2018)
- Andrew Hudgins (1951)
- Mark Jarman (1952)
- Franz Wright (1953-2015)
- Marly Youmans (1953)
- Scott Cairns (1954)
- Clare Rossini (1954)
- A.M. Juster (1956)
- Bruce Beasley (1958)
- Marjorie Maddox (1959)
- Angela Alaimo OāDonnell (1960)
- Julia Spicher Kasdorf (1962)
- Christian Wiman (1966)
- John Poch (1966)
- Jennifer Reeser (1968)
- Tracy K. Smith (1972)
- Tania Runyan (1972)
- Brett Foster (1973-2015)
- James Matthew Wilson (1975)
- Shane McCrae (1975)
- Benjamin Myers (1975)
- Mark Wagenaar (1979)
- Ryan Wilson (1982)
- Chelsea Wagenaar (1989)
- Acknowledgments
- Index of Titles