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Christian poetry in America since 1940 : an anthology / edited by Micah Mattix and Sally Thomas.
"A compilation of important Christian poetry of the last eighty years"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781640608122
- ISBN: 1640608125
- ISBN: 9781640607231
- ISBN: 1640607234
- Physical Description: 205 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Brewster, Massachusetts : Iron Pen/Paraclete Press, 2022.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Paul Mariani (1940). Quid pro quo ; The great wheel ; Mother of consolation ; Holy Saturday ; What happened then -- Diane Glancy (1941). Doot dah do ; Why I like God ; Holy ghost -- Jeanne Murray Walker (1944). Light ; Little blessing for my floater ; Staying power ; The sign ; In the beginning was the word ; The creation -- Marilyn Nelson (1946). Churchgoing ; Incomplete renunciation ; For the feast of Corpus Christi ; Miracle in the collection plate ; The temperance flue -- Robert B. Shaw (1947). Things we will never know ; Ash Wednesday, late afternoon ; A geode ; Dec. 23 ; Pilgrims -- Kathleen Norris (1947). Prayer to Eve ; Little girls in church ; The sky is full of blue, and full of the mind of God ; Ascension -- William Baer (1948). Snake ; Adam ; Theotokos ; Ethiopian -- Jay Parini (1948). At the ruined monastery in Amalfi ; The grammar of affection ; Blessings -- David Middleton (1949). Man with a hoe ; Louisiana passage: the whippoorwill ; The Sunday school lesson ; Self-examination: reflections in a mirror ; Epiphany in Lent ; Ordinations -- Dana Gioia (1950). The burning ladder ; Prayer ; The litany ; The angel with the broken wing ; Prophecy ; Prayer at winter solstice ; Seven deadly sins -- Maryann Corbett (1950). State fair fireworks, Labor day ; Holiday concert -- Timothy Murphy (1951-2018). Agapé ; Prayer for sobriety ; Hunter's grace ; Soul of the north ; Prayer for Pentecost ; Open the way -- Andrew Hudgins (1951). Raven days ; How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? ; Praying drunk ; Christ as a gardener ; Beatitudes -- Mark Jarman (1952). Questions for Ecclesiastes ; Unholy sonnet I ; Unholy sonnet II ; Reminder ; Hymn -- Franz Wright (1953-2015). Year one ; One heart ; Baptism ; The hawk ; After absence -- Marly Youmans (1953). Transfiguration ; The starry fool -- Scott Cairns (1954). The more earnest prayer of Christ ; Possible answers to prayers ; Bad theology: a quiz ; Idiot Psalm 2 ; Idiot Psalm 4 ; Dawn at Saint Anna's skete -- Clare Rossini (1954). Fra Angelico's "annunciation" at San Marco ; Prayer of sorts -- A.M. Juster (1956). Japanese maple in January ; Three visitors -- Bruse Beasley (1958). After an adoration ; Consolation ; Doxology ; All saints -- Marjorie Maddox (1959). How spiritual are you? ; Ash Wednesday -- Angela Alaimo O'Donnell (1960). To be a pilgrim ; Flannery's manifesto -- Julia Spicher Kasdorf (1962). Dying with Amish uncles ; Mennonites ; A pass ; The knowledge of good and evil -- Christian Wiman (1966). After the diagnosis ; Lord is not a word ; Prayer ; The preacher addresses the seminarians ; Prologue ; All my friends are finding new beliefs ; Even bees know what zero is -- John Poch (1966). Prayer ; Ignored woodwork in old churches -- Jennifer Reeser (1968). Nature does not care ; O great spirit -- Tracy K. Smith (1972). Cathedral kitsch ; My God, it's full of stars ; The universe as primal scream ; Wade in the water ; The garden of Eden -- Tania Runyan (1972). The fruit of the spirit ; The angel over Patmos -- Brett Foster (1973-2015). The garbage eater ; At the city church of San Francisco -- James Matthew Wilson (1975). Passover ; Some will remember you -- Shane McCrae (1975). Lord of the hopeless also dear ; Still when I picture it the face of God is a white man's face -- Benjamin Myers (1975). The reverend on natural theology ; Field -- Mark Wagenaar (1979). Goat hour gospel (such salvage) ; Abel, almost asleep in the field -- Ryan Wilson (1982). Xenia ; In the harvest season ; Chelsea Wagenaar (1989). Advent ; Scale. |
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| Subject: | Christian poetry, American. American poetry > 20th century. American poetry > 21st century. American poetry. Christian poetry, American. |
| Genre: | Poetry. Poetry. |
Micah Mattix is the poetry editor at First Things and an associate professor of English at Regent University. His criticism has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Criterion, National Review, Humanities, and many other outlets. Previously he was the literary editor at The American Conservative and a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard. He is currently a senior editor at Spectator World and the author of The Soul Is a Stranger in this World: Essays on Poets and Poetry.
Sally Thomas is the author of a poetry collection, Motherland, a finalist for the 2018 Able Muse Book Award and published by Able Muse Press in 2020. She is also the author of a novel, Works of Mercy, published by Wiseblood Books in 2022. Over the last three decades, her poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in such journals as First Things, Plough Quarterly, Public Discourse, and the New Yorker. She serves as Associate Poetry Editor for the New York Sun.