{"product_id":"thick-and-dazzling-darkness-9780231173308","title":"Thick and Dazzling Darkness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter O’Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the importance of religious poetry in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature. He traces a poetic genealogy that begins with Whitman and Dickinson and continues today to defend the value and meaning of religious poetry against the grain of a secular society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThick and Dazzling Darkness undertakes the daunting task of exploring spirituality (qua poetry) in a way that connects such otherwise dissimilar poets as the self-consciously backward-looking Robinson Jeffers, the peculiarly American modernism of Robert Duncan, and the (at)tendent postmodernism of Fanny Howe and Nathaniel Mackey. O'Leary creates a conceptual fabric through which we can \"read\" this diverse group of poets-some well-served in scholarly circles, others rapidly falling off the American poetry radar. Given our cultural predicament as Americans, this work could not be more timely. -- G. C. Waldrep, Bucknell University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age\u003cbr\u003e1. A Mystical Theology of Angelic Despair: Writing Religious Poetry and the \u003ci\u003eTrilogy \u003c\/i\u003eof Frank Samperi\u003cbr\u003e2. Robinson Jeffers, the Man from Whom God Hid Everything\u003cbr\u003e3. Spiritual Osmosis: Absorbing the Influence in Geoffrey Hill’s Later Poetry\u003cbr\u003e4. Prophetic Frustrations: Robert Duncan’s \u003ci\u003eTribunals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. What Lies Beneath My Copy of Eternity? Religious Language in the Poetry of Lissa Wolsak\u003cbr\u003e6. Catholics: Reading Fanny Howe\u003cbr\u003e7. Robert Duncan’s Celestial Hierarchy\u003cbr\u003e8. The Long Huthered Hajj: Nathaniel Mackey’s Esotericism\u003cbr\u003e9. Apocalypticism: A Way Forward for Poetry\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Why Not Be Totally Changed Into Fire?\u003cbr\u003ePermissions\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400296702295,"sku":"9780231173308","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231173308.jpg?v=1730470314","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thick-and-dazzling-darkness-9780231173308","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}