How do some of our best poets reflect death in their opaque art? What do their death poems tell us about our lives, about our faith--and the objects of our faith--and about the shape of our doubt? Acquainted with the Night is a study of death as it appears in the work of a handful of contemporary poets--Geoffrey Hill, Scott Cairns, Mark Jarman, R. S. Thomas, and Wendell Berry. The primary focus throughout is directed to the appearance...