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03349aam a2200445 i 4500 001 C2559A86F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 170522s2018 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017007545 020 $a 023117330X 020 $a 9780231173308 035 $a (OCoLC)987628540 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS310.R4 $b O44 2018 082 00 $a 811.009/382 $2 23 100 1 $a O'Leary, Peter, $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a Thick and dazzling darkness : $b religious poetry in a secular age / $c Peter O'Leary. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xiii, 260 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: religious poetry in a secular age -- A mystical theology of angelic despair: writing religious poetry and the trilogy of Frank Samperi -- Robinson Jeffers, the man from whom god hid everything -- Spiritual osmosis: Geoffrey Hill's recent poetry -- Prophetic frustrations: Robert Duncan's Tribunals -- What lies beneath my copy of eternity? religious language in the poetry of Lissa Wolsak -- Catholics: reading Fanny Howe -- Robert Duncan's celestial hierarchy -- The long-huthered hajj: Nathaniel Mackey's esotericism -- Apocalypticism: a way forward for poetry. 520 8 $a In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O'Leary offers a new reading of modern and contemporary poets' treatment of religion and the nature of the divine in a secular age. The book seeks to come to terms with an often obscured spiritual impulse that drives the production and imagination of American poetry.O'Leary presents close and comprehensive readings of the modernist, late-modernist, and postmodern poets Robinson Jeffers, Frank Samperi, and Robert Duncan, as well as the contemporary poets Joseph Donahue, Geoffrey Hill, Fanny Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Pam Rehm, and Lissa Wolsak. He argues that an anxiety of misunderstanding exists in the study and writing of poetry between secular and religious impulses and that the religious nature of poets' works is too often marginalized. Examining the works of a specific poet in each chapter, O'Leary reveals their complexity and offers a defense of the value and meaning of religious poetry against the grain of a secular society. 650 0 $a Religious poetry, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American poetry $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Religion in literature. 650 0 $a Religion and literature. 650 7 $a American poetry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807348 650 7 $a Religion and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093839 650 7 $a Religion in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01732559 650 7 $a Religious poetry, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01094210 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a O'Leary, Peter, 1968- author. $t Thick and dazzling darkness $d New York : Columbia University Press, 2017 $z 9780231545976 $w (DLC) 2017024983 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116055116.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180104062336.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C2559A86F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search