Susan McCaslin, J. S. Porter

Broschiertes Buch

Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton's Dance with the Feminine

Beschreibung

Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton's Dance with the Feminine is a unique, unified, multi-genre work that includes dialogue, imaginary letters, poems, and reflective essays by two estab-lished Canadian poets. Taking cues from Merton himself, Susan and John establish a playful, jazzy, dialogic tone -- superabundantly alive. This book invites participation for those who already know Merton's work and for those who are meeting this whole and broken, prophetic, whimsical, para-doxical prophet and visionary for the first time. Robert Lax once described Merton's poetry and the man himself as "superabundantly alive." McCaslin and Porter prove the truth of this description in their enchanting account of the writ-er-mystic who now comes into his second cen-tury of stature and significance, in the words of Boris Pasternak, "[a]live and burning to the end.

Autor

Susan McCaslin is a Canadian poet and Thomas Merton scholar who has published 14 volumes of poetry, including several long sequences on Thomas Merton. Susan is a Wood Lake author of a volume of essays titled Arousing the Spirit: Provocative Writings (Wood Lake Books, 2011). Her most recent volume of poetry is Painter, Poet, Mountain: After Cézanne (Quattro Books, 2016). Previous volumes include The Disarmed Heart (The St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2014) and Demeter Goes Skydiving (University of Alberta Press, 2011). The latter was short-listed for the BC Book Prize (Dorothy Livesay Award) and the first-place winner of the Alberta Book Publishing Award (Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award). McCaslin has published critical essays on Merton in The Merton Seasonal, The Merton Annual, Thomas Merton: Monk on the Edge (The Thomas Merton Society of Canada), Merton and Hesychasm (Fons Vitae), and We Are Already One: Thomas Merton's Message of Hope; Reflections to Honour His Centenary (1915-2015). Her recent memoir is Into the Mystic: My Years with Olga (Inanna, 2014). She resides in Fort Langley, British Columbia with her husband, Mark, where she initiated the Han Shan Poetry Project as part of a successful campaign to save an endangered rainforest along the Fraser River. www.susanmccaslin.ca

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wood Lake Publishing Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 229mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781773430355
• ISBN-10: 1773430351
• Artikelnr.: 54027189