Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-150) and index.
Contents:
1. Time and eternity -- Beginnings -- Elizabeth Bishop: an unconventional life -- 2. The fall -- Ashes, ashes ... -- The fortunate fall -- The prodigal -- Roosters -- New, tender, and quick -- 3. Love and longing -- Putting love into action -- The filling station -- Comic relief -- Mysteries are not to be solved -- Infant sight -- 4. Suffering meaning -- The nature of things -- The dark night of the soul -- The end of the road -- A comic interlude -- At the fishhouses -- 5. Blessed are the poor -- Unreasonable charity -- The dignity of affliction -- I-thou -- Critical practices -- The still, small voice -- Wit's wisdom -- 6. Assent -- Jacob's ladder -- Nothing but plenty -- Dividing the heart -- Coming together -- Otherworldiness -- Good to eat a thousand years.
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