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050 00 $aPS310.R4$bO44 2018
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100 1 $aO'Leary, Peter,$d1968-$eauthor.
245 10 $aThick and dazzling darkness :$breligious poetry in a secular age /$cPeter O'Leary.
264 1 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c[2018]
300 $axiii, 260 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: religious poetry in a secular age -- A mystical theology of angelic despair: writing religious poetry and the trilogy of Frank Samperi -- Robinson Jeffers, the man from whom god hid everything -- Spiritual osmosis: Geoffrey Hill's recent poetry -- Prophetic frustrations: Robert Duncan's Tribunals -- What lies beneath my copy of eternity? religious language in the poetry of Lissa Wolsak -- Catholics: reading Fanny Howe -- Robert Duncan's celestial hierarchy -- The long-huthered hajj: Nathaniel Mackey's esotericism -- Apocalypticism: a way forward for poetry.
520 8 $aIn Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O'Leary offers a new reading of modern and contemporary poets' treatment of religion and the nature of the divine in a secular age. The book seeks to come to terms with an often obscured spiritual impulse that drives the production and imagination of American poetry.O'Leary presents close and comprehensive readings of the modernist, late-modernist, and postmodern poets Robinson Jeffers, Frank Samperi, and Robert Duncan, as well as the contemporary poets Joseph Donahue, Geoffrey Hill, Fanny Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Pam Rehm, and Lissa Wolsak. He argues that an anxiety of misunderstanding exists in the study and writing of poetry between secular and religious impulses and that the religious nature of poets' works is too often marginalized. Examining the works of a specific poet in each chapter, O'Leary reveals their complexity and offers a defense of the value and meaning of religious poetry against the grain of a secular society.
650 0 $aReligious poetry, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aReligion in literature.
650 0 $aReligion and literature.
650 7 $aAmerican poetry.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00807348
650 7 $aReligion and literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01093839
650 7 $aReligion in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01732559
650 7 $aReligious poetry, American.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01094210
648 7 $a1900-1999$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
776 08 $iOnline version:$aO'Leary, Peter, 1968- author.$tThick and dazzling darkness$dNew York : Columbia University Press, 2017$z9780231545976$w(DLC) 2017024983
852 00 $bglx$hPS310.R4$iO44 2018