The Fall & Other Poems
The Fall & Other Poems
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Bottum is a regular contributor to First Things, the magazine of the Institute on Religion and Public Life, in which many of the poems in this collection first appeared. If you detect a Christian sensibility in the book, you are only properly attentive. The title of the longest poem in it is a clue, of course: "The Fall," not "Fall," although it is about autumn in New England. Like many other poems here, it is rife with religious feeling, conjured by a declaration like "The world is kindling for the Lord," by the coincidence of biblical town names, and by the hopeful, grateful questions that conclude it: "What mercy after such forgiveness? / What resurrection waits on spring?" The celebration of the beauty of purely earthly things, the acknowledgment of human inadequacy and contingency, and the thankfulness "for broken things" that Bottum asks for in the opening poem, "Baptism," are constants throughout poems that display considerable formal and tonal variety. Exemplary religiously informed poetry.
Author
Bottum, J
Publisher
St Augustine's Press
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20C
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ISBN/Code: 1587312506
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