Some poets begin very early to write great poetry. Arthur
Rimbaud wrote one of his best poems at 15, Percy Shelley published
his first book of poetry at 18. But Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B., did
not start until he was 75, after decades of writing as a
professional theologian. Now 82 he gives us "Swift, Lord, You Are
Not," poems of the struggle to find God - waiting for the silence
of God to break. He does not write pious verse, or inspirational
poetry, but of wrestling with the illusive God. His themes are
mostly biblical and monastic. He closes with an essay Poet: Can You
Start at Seventy-Five?" in which he describes the literary
decisions he makes within the monastic context - decisions he needs
to make with some dispatch. At 75 he does not have decades to
mature. He writes with a new language.
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"Kilian McDonnell, OSB, STD, is a priest and monk of St. John's
Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota. He is author of "John Calvin, The
Church, and the Eucharist" (Princeton and Oxford University
Presses) and "The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan," and the
forthcoming "The Other Hand of God: The Holy Spirit as the
Universal Touch and Goal," published by Liturgical Press. He served
as the Consultor to the Vatican Pontifical Council for Promoting
Christian Unity, and is the founder and president of the Institute
for Ecumenical and Cultural Research in Collegeville, Minnesota. He
is the recipient of the John Courtney Murray Award for Significant
Contributions to Theology, given by the Catholic Theological
Society of America, the James Fitzgerald Award for Ecumenism, and
was the recipient of the papal award for ecumenism from Pope John
Paul II: "Pro Pontifice et Eccelesia."
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