Songs from an empty cage
Subtitle: poetry, mystery, anabaptism, and peace
By: Jeff Gundy
Series: The C. Henry Smith Series -- Volume 10
Publisher: Cascadia Publishing House
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Telford, Pennsylvania
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781931038973
Subjects: Religion and poetry; Peace in literature; Anabaptists; Mennonites
Description: "The author employs a theopoetic approach to engage ultimate questions while probing the intersections of poetry with Anabaptism, Mennonites, mystery, and peacemaking"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Notes toward an anabaptist theopoetics; title: Declining to be in charge; title: The hammer and the free spirit; title: The marriage of the martyrs mirror and the open road, or, why I love poetry despite the suspicion that it won't save anybody; title: "Truth did not come into the world naked": images, stories, and intimations; title: Notes toward the heretical sublime; title: Adding real beings to the world: teaching peace, writing, and human exchange; title: On Jesus and teaching; title: Toward post-peace poetry: or, what to do with the drunken soldiers?; title: Sound and the sixties: sex, god, rock and roll, and flourishing; title: The rule of god and the ruby: the theopoet talks back; title: The farm boy's thoughts turn toward beauty; title: The baptism in dark water: apophasis, mystery, and the god within; title: Looking in the mirror; title: Who knows who is calling?; title: Voice and imagination: meaning besides truth.