Author: John Briggs
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725261626
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Contrary to Plato’s teaching, we need poets, not this Quarrel of Philosopher Kings arguing over who owns what. It was God’s poetic speech, the “Let there be. . .” that created, from nothing, the very world philosopher kings fuss over. It was the poetic speech of Jesus that fed the masses with a couple of fish and a bit of bread. It was his poetry in the beatitudes and parables that opened our eyes to the fat world. And it was his death on the cross that opened a way between our transactional, skinny world and his transformational, fat one. The poems in this book chronicle one man’s journey between these worlds. This journey is not the easy, transactional one prose natters on about (“Just say and do this or that and you will be saved”). This journey requires us to let go of the landmarks that guided us through the skinny world and to have the faith to embrace the fat one. The trip is dangerous, frightening, and requires the poet in us to rise and cry, “I, too, create!” But this journey is also crucial to becoming fully human and, thereby, the Friends of God rather than just his followers.
Prose Kills
Author: John Briggs
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725261626
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Contrary to Plato’s teaching, we need poets, not this Quarrel of Philosopher Kings arguing over who owns what. It was God’s poetic speech, the “Let there be. . .” that created, from nothing, the very world philosopher kings fuss over. It was the poetic speech of Jesus that fed the masses with a couple of fish and a bit of bread. It was his poetry in the beatitudes and parables that opened our eyes to the fat world. And it was his death on the cross that opened a way between our transactional, skinny world and his transformational, fat one. The poems in this book chronicle one man’s journey between these worlds. This journey is not the easy, transactional one prose natters on about (“Just say and do this or that and you will be saved”). This journey requires us to let go of the landmarks that guided us through the skinny world and to have the faith to embrace the fat one. The trip is dangerous, frightening, and requires the poet in us to rise and cry, “I, too, create!” But this journey is also crucial to becoming fully human and, thereby, the Friends of God rather than just his followers.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725261626
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Contrary to Plato’s teaching, we need poets, not this Quarrel of Philosopher Kings arguing over who owns what. It was God’s poetic speech, the “Let there be. . .” that created, from nothing, the very world philosopher kings fuss over. It was the poetic speech of Jesus that fed the masses with a couple of fish and a bit of bread. It was his poetry in the beatitudes and parables that opened our eyes to the fat world. And it was his death on the cross that opened a way between our transactional, skinny world and his transformational, fat one. The poems in this book chronicle one man’s journey between these worlds. This journey is not the easy, transactional one prose natters on about (“Just say and do this or that and you will be saved”). This journey requires us to let go of the landmarks that guided us through the skinny world and to have the faith to embrace the fat one. The trip is dangerous, frightening, and requires the poet in us to rise and cry, “I, too, create!” But this journey is also crucial to becoming fully human and, thereby, the Friends of God rather than just his followers.
Prose Works
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Sports that Kill
Author: Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1820. (etc.)
Author: Thomas Bayly Howell
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Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Languages : en
Pages : 720
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American and English Annotated Cases
Author: Harry Noyes Greene
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1316
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1316
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New Ways to Kill Your Mother
Author: Colm Toibin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451668562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Novelist and critic Colm T ib n provides "a fascinating exploration of writers and their families" (Entertainment Weekly) and "an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires" (The Evening Standard) in this brilliant collection of essays that explore the relationships of writers to their families and their work. Novelist and critic Colm T ib n explores the relationships of writers with their families and their work in the brilliant, nuanced, and wholly original New Ways to Kill Your Mother. T ib n--celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays--traces the intriguing, often twisted family ties of writers in the books they leave behind. Through the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, Jane Austen and her aunts, and Tennessee Williams and his sister, T ib n examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in their implications. Acutely perceptive and imbued with rare tenderness and wit, New Ways to Kill Your Mother is a fascinating look at writers' most influential bonds and a secret key to understanding and enjoying their work.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451668562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Novelist and critic Colm T ib n provides "a fascinating exploration of writers and their families" (Entertainment Weekly) and "an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires" (The Evening Standard) in this brilliant collection of essays that explore the relationships of writers to their families and their work. Novelist and critic Colm T ib n explores the relationships of writers with their families and their work in the brilliant, nuanced, and wholly original New Ways to Kill Your Mother. T ib n--celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays--traces the intriguing, often twisted family ties of writers in the books they leave behind. Through the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, Jane Austen and her aunts, and Tennessee Williams and his sister, T ib n examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in their implications. Acutely perceptive and imbued with rare tenderness and wit, New Ways to Kill Your Mother is a fascinating look at writers' most influential bonds and a secret key to understanding and enjoying their work.
The Southwestern Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Nelson's Encyclopeaedia
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Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Nelson's Encyclopaedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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