Common Life: Poems - Couverture souple

Cording, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0972304576 ISBN 13 : 9780972304573

Editeur : CavanKerry Press, 2006

Synopsis

Common Life looks at the various meanings of common, especially its senses of familiar and widely known; belong or relating to the community at large; and its twinned notions of simple and rudimentary and vulgar and profane. The book's perspective is religious, and is grounded in the epigraph from the Psalms: "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him." The "waiting" that is required has to do with three things: first, our desire, as Charles Wright puts it, "to believe in belief" rather than believe; secondly, the need for a setting aside of the self, an abandonment of "every attempt to make something of oneself, even...a righteous person" in the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and thirdly, the "waiting" must be as Eliot wrote in the Four Quartets a waiting "without hope for hope would be hope of the wrong thing." If we learn to wait in these ways, the final section of the book suggests that we have the chance of opening ourselves to all that is graceful within life's common bounds.

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ROBERT CORDING teaches English and creative writing at College of the Holy Cross, where he is the Barrett Professor of Creative Writing. He is the author of Life-list, which won the Ohio State University Press/Journal award in 1987; What Binds Us To This World (1991); Heavy Grace (1996); and Against Consolation (CavanKerry Press, 2002). He has received two grants in poetry from the National Endowment of the Arts and two from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts. His poems have appeared in The Nation, Image, AGNI, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry, DoubleTake, Orion, Paris Review, the New Yorker, and many other magazines. He lives in Woodstock, Connecticut, with his wife and three children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CavanKerry Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0972304576
• ISBN 13: 9780972304573
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 132
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible