Heaven in Ordinary: Poetry and Religion in a Secular Age

by David Jasper

Heaven in Ordinary is like a love affair with poetry that engages with religious questions, for good or ill, concerned with five poets who are haunted by God. Poets, in times of great faith and times of doubt, have expressed for us their sense of both the presence and the absence of God in language that is sometimes almost sacramental in its weight of beauty, love, fear, anger or despair. The poets considered here all relate, in some way, to the traditions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071889541X
• ISBN13: 9780718895419
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.