Beliefs and Blasphemies: A New Slant on Selecting the Perfect Mate
Autor Virginia Hamilton Adairen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 1998
In "Saving the Songs," for example, we reconsider Martin Luther's penchant for recycling barroom tunes into hymns: "Said Luther of the singing in saloons,/'Why should the devil have the choicest tunes?'" More soberly, in "The Reassem-blage," we are asked to test the extremes of the Christian version of the hereafter--"one a verdict brutal beyond imagination,/the other by most reports an eternity of boredom"--against our hearts' hopes. The conclusion? "Some myths are too terrible for our believing." "Goddesses First" muses about the primacy of female deities in many religious myths. "Choosing" uses the poet's virtual blindness to explain her celebration of the only distinction her "frail vision can discern": the literal difference between night and day. Zen temples and the chapel at a state mental hospital, animism and meditation, whores and angels--this curious, witty, and compassionate sensibility encompasses them all.
Virginia Hamilton Adair is a uniquely American poet--restless in her lyrical investigations, hopeful and honest, rigorous in her formal accomplishments, spontaneous in her emotions. Beliefs and Blasphemies will appeal to anyone who has ever thought about first things or final things--anyone who enjoys speculating about how we got here and where we're going--and it will reconfirm its author's stature as a national treasure.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780812992458
ISBN-10: 0812992458
Pagini: 124
Dimensiuni: 157 x 219 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Random House
ISBN-10: 0812992458
Pagini: 124
Dimensiuni: 157 x 219 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Random House
Notă biografică
Virginia Hamilton Adair was born in 1913 in New York City. Educated at Kimberly, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, and the University of Wisconsin, she taught briefly at Wisconsin, the College of William & Mary, and Pomona College, and for twenty-two years at California Polytechnic University at Pomona. She lives in Claremont, California.
From the Hardcover edition.
From the Hardcover edition.