Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age

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How do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O'Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and importance of religious poetry in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature. He traces a poetic genealogy that begins with Whitman...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:023117330X

ISBN13:9780231173308

Release Date:November 2017

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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