"And Have You Changed Your Life?": The Challenge of Listening to the Spiritual in Contemporary Poetry

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Description

Eight authors present original poems and commentary seeking the spiritual in contemporary art and poetry.

ISBN

9781626000483

Publication Date

2015

Publisher

Marquette University Press

City

Milwaukee, WI

Keywords

Poetry

Disciplines

Other Arts and Humanities | Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures | Poetry

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction...........................................................................................7

John Pustejovsky & Anne Pasero

2. Poems

Heather James........................................................................................11

3. Poem, Self, Voice and Spirit

Edwin Block...........................................................................................19

4. Love and Entropy in Ernesto Cardenal’s Pluriverse

Dinorah Cortés-Vélez...........................................................................33

5. Poetry and Spirituality: The Life Not In Parenthesis

John E. Curran, Jr...................................................................................41

6. Spirit of Self in the Mystic Poetry of Clara Jan.s

Anne Pasero...........................................................................................51

7. Czeslaw Milosz and the Witness of the Naked Poet

John Pustejovsky....................................................................................67

8. At Home in the Stranger’s House: Poetic Revision and Spiritual Practice

Angela Sorby..........................................................................................85

9. A Spiritual Director’s Response

Michael Dante....................................................................................... 99

Index............................................................................................107

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