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Cries of Earth and Altar: Poems That Couldn't Be Helped

Cries of Earth and Altar: Poems That Couldn't Be Helped

Bartow, Charles L.

Hardcover

Religion General General Poetry

Publisher Price: $34.00

ISBN10: 1498222625
ISBN13: 9781498222624
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: Nov 12 2014
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The poems of Cries of Earth and Altar speak of human laughter, mystery, work, play, sorrow--and even rage--as an oblation set upon heaven's high altar, which, as Calvin noted, is Christ himself. Upon that altar, the cries of earth are made a cry of glory, Abba, Father (Mark 14:36; Rom 8:15)! With the exception of those poems labeled out of season, each poetic text is given a place in the Christian liturgical calendar: Advent-Epiphany, Transfiguration Sunday, Lent-Pentecost, and Ordinary Time. In the concluding essay, poetry and preaching are spoken of as fragile indicatives that implicitly call into question all claims of inviolability and permanence for humanly wrought systems of thought, common life, and governance. They survive as verbal, vocal, and physical gesture, as ink turned into blood.

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