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The Long Weeping: Portrait Essays

The Long Weeping: Portrait Essays

Van Eerden, Jessie

Paperback

Letters & EssaysGeneral ChristianityGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0996439757
ISBN13: 9780996439756
Publisher: Orison Books
Published: Nov 7 2017
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

In this collection of portraits, the eye is the vital lamp of the body, a spiritual organ van Eerden uses to craft essays that are as much encounters as they are likenesses, as much being seen as seeing. Historical subjects like Simone Weil and the Beguines confront the author's imaginative and intellectual being, while the viscerally close foci of family and a lost marriage must also be reckoned with. The author's religious tradition and the rural landscape of Terra Alta, West Virginia are two backgrounds that are neither chosen nor fully understood, but van Eerden's attention to these matters becomes its own form of devotion, a longing to see and to believe-the longing itself taking on the robustness of faith. This is the common goal of these essays, to fully meet each subject and return to it some form of wholeness, a quest full of lush imagery and insights.

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