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16 produkter
Against Consolation
Häftad, 2001
146 kr
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The title poem takes its name from a passage by Simone Weil, "We must not weep so that we may not be comforted." But in this and other poems, Robert Cording offers a more hopeful vision of our ability to find consolation in the world we inhabit-a world endowed will offer endless spiritual …
Finding the World's Fullness
On Poetry, Metaphor, and Mystery
E-bok, 2019
229 kr
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Forty years as a poet has kept Robert Cording looking at the details of everyday experience. That long labor has brought him face-to-face with the inescapable complexity of a world that is full of suffering and injustice. And grace. This journey has convinced him that, as Czeslaw Milosz puts it, …
In the Unwalled City
E-bok, 2022
194 kr
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I n the Unwalled City takes its title from Epicurus, whowrote: “Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when itcomes to death, we human beings all live in an unwalled city.” This affectingbook—which weaves prose memoir with poetry—explores that feeling of being opento attack—in …
Word in My Mouth
Selected Spiritual Poems
E-bok, 2013
468 kr
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These poems--selected from the past three decades--are firmly rooted in what Richard Wilbur called the "e;hunks and colors of the world."e; They faithfully try to take into account a world we did not make and, at the same time, record the terrifying and painful contradictions of human …
Walking with Ruskin
Poems
Häftad, 2010
165 kr
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In his poem, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," William Blake hypothesized that "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." Of course, Blake's "doors of perception" are both hard to clean and even harder to keep clean. For John Ruskin, the famous …
Only So Far
Häftad, 2015
165 kr
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In Only So Far, Cording's poetry vacillates between complaint and praise, lamenting and loving our "sowre-sweet dayes" as George Herbert's poem "Bittersweet" puts it. Behind the book lies the story of the Promised Land that Moses never quite reaches, and those "little daily miracles" that Virginia …
Heavy Grace
E-bok, 2022
152 kr
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Poetry. HEAVY GRACE is the third collection of poems by Robert Cording, exploring what he terms the "deep syntax of grief" with spirituality and humbleness. "Cording recognizes that the ''heart cannot be comforted,'' yet his stern poems offer a measure of solace, a kind of grace - a way to live in …
Without My Asking – Poetry
Häftad, 2019
165 kr
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In poems that range from New England to the Southwest, Without My Asking, takes its cue from Psalms 90's petition-"teach us to number our days." That biblical sense of limits-of what we can know and not know-and, ultimately, the mystery of before and after that encloses our existence is the center …
