Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age

by Peter O'Leary

How do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O'Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and importance of religious poetry in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature. He traces a poetic genealogy that begins with Whitman...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023117330X
• ISBN13: 9780231173308
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"