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The Life and Death of Poetry by Kelly Cherry, and: Epiphanies by Kim Bridgford, and: Local News from Someplace Else by Marjorie Maddox, and: Recluse Freedom by John Leax (review)
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  • Christianity & Literature, 2014, Vol.63 (3), p.415-419
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Malibu: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线
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  • In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: 415 Book Reviews diverse and extensive sources ranging from Lewis’ own corpus through the secondary scholarship. As in any large work, there are inevitably errors in citation, an over-fondness for noting the author’s own terminology, excessive repetition, and language that borders—at times—on jargon even for literary studies, but the overall effect of the book is nothing short of providing an explanatory framework for Lewis’ entire oeuvre. While there are other frameworks for interpreting the significance of Lewis’ ideas, Joeckel’s is methodical, critical, and rewarding. He balances the tone of his ideas to avoid both hagiography and conjecture, which I believe makes the work valuable for Lewis scholars from a variety of perspectives and orientations. Joeckel addresses and avoids the personal heresy supporting his claims with remarkable attention to a large range of sources. In talking with Samuel Joeckel at the 2013 Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, I learned that he expected the book might raise the ire of some Lewis scholars. While I can certainly understand the possibility for such ire in his brief coverage of Lewis’ “meta-critical curiosities” and his appendix of “biographical contradictions” in Lewis’ life, I think Joeckel is needlessly concerned since he presents these issues with tact and open-endedness, offering the varying perspectives while allowing the reader to draw conclusions based on his or her own pre-dispositions. Toby F. Coley University of Mary Hardin-Baylor The Life and Death of Poetry. By Kelly Cherry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8071-5042-9. Pp. x + 70. $14.45. Epiphanies. By Kim Bridgford. Cincinatti: David Robert Books, 2013. ISBN 978-16254 -9019-3. Pp. 53. $17.00. Local News from Someplace Else. By Marjorie Maddox. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2013. ISBN 978-1-62564-094-9. Pp. xii + 92. $12.60. Recluse Freedom. By John Leax. Seattle: WordFarm, 2012. ISBN 978-1-60226-0122 . Pp. 128. $18.00. Reading carefully through these collections of verse by four gifted poets intensifies the sense that writing verse is such a personal, nuanced, and remarkably precious activity. Collectively, the poetry of all four ranges far and wide, both in terms of location and subject matter. From upstate New York, to Pennsylvania, to Wales, and to the Holy Land, these carefully crafted poems demonstrate that Christianity and Literature 416 all human experience, from the everyday to the intensely memorable, sometimes even spectacular, can be the subject matter for poetic consideration. They all have one thing in common, however, and that is a desire to understand and express the human dilemma, the need to make meaning out of our short, transient relationship with the world around us. All, in one sense or another, also deal with the fragile nature of human perception and the challenge to write well, to capture what lies within the creative mind. All four poets do that well. The Life and Death of Poetry, by Kelly Cherry, is broken into three parts, the first and third dealing with the domain of language and the role of the poet. There are some memorable poems in each of these sections. “A Sunday in Scotland” is an excellent sonnet, clear and direct, mixing observations of the natural world with perceptive reflections on the function and effectiveness of language. The same is true of “Blue Jay in the Snow,” “Against Aphasia,” and “Wintering,” all poems which reflect on the act of writing. In “Wintering,” snow is the dominant presence guiding the poet’s thoughts: “While I eat, I read and the snow falls / on the tangled vines too light- / weight to stand up to snow. Anonymous / as a nun, I write books, pushing my pen / across paper, or read others’ books, / in a room as quiet as falling snow.” Collectively, the poems in these two sections suggest the beginnings of a modern day Ars Poetica. The second part of this collection, “Welsh Table Talk,” is clearly the more effective. A sequence of eighteen poems set on the Isle of Bardsey, in Wales, it is a subtle sequence of short poems conveying traces of narrative, juxtaposing the holiday joy of two children (daughter and friend) and the uncertainty and...

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