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God`s Poems - The Beauty of Poetry and the Christian Imagination (Paperback)
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God`s Poems - The Beauty of Poetry and the Christian Imagination (Paperback)
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Poetry is exciting, but elusive to most. This is troublesome for
Christians because the Bible, John Poch reminds us, is largely
composed of poetical verse. In God's Poems, Poch re-introduces
sacred text as purposefully poetic, and explains what that means
and invites the reader to with this insight live more thoughtfully
and beautifully. But that is not all. Poch as a well-established
and regarded poet, turns his eye to contemporary poetry and
vindicates its function in a "created and creative world." Today
many have abandoned the genre as a wasteland of misguided voice
that really has nothing to say. The poet is a truth-teller, and
Poch as devoted writer, teacher, and believer sends out a renewed
call to turn to verse as a means of seeing oneself as God's poeima,
or poem (Letter to Ephesians). The depth of self-knowing relates
directly to an aptitude to engage the category of poetry at some
level. A tragic void is filled with Poch's effort to exhort the
reader to patiently reconnect with poetry even though it has been
hijacked by persons who want to be heard more than speak well.
(This book is essential, therefore, for aspiring poets.) For
faithful readers or those seeking to return, Poch is a place to
begin to understand contemporary writers worth knowing and which
poets of the past must remain with us. In Virgilian fashion, he can
see the panorama behind him and that which lies immediately ahead
and instills a recovered love of an eternal medium that will be
restored to a state of coherency and enlightened perspective. If
Poch has faith in poetry it is because poetry is indeed a source of
faith. If Justin Martyr claimed that everything that is true
belongs to Christians, Poch shows us that everyone who speaks truth
is to some degree a poet. Even God with his revealed wisdom chooses
poetry as medium par excellence. It is essential to know how poetry
works. "Great poems that we consider literature give us what we
never expected. They go beyond the usefulness of conveying a
feeling and unveiling beauty; and they tell us who we are."
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