While Jim Dodge is internationally known for his fiction, his first and abiding passion is poetry. After eighteen years of publishing anonymously and reading only to local crowds in the Pacific Northwest, he began to issue occasional limited-edition letterpress chapbooks with a small press, as well
The stream & the sapphire: selected poems on religious themes
โ Scribed by Levertov, Denise
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 66 KB
- Series
- A New Directions paperbook 844
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0811222403
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Conceived as a convenience to those readers who are themselves concerned with doubt and faith. The Stream & The Sapphire presents a compact thematic grouping of thirty-eight poems, originally published in seven separate volumes. The earliest poem here dates from 1978, and though the sequence is not wholly chronological, "it does," as Denise Levertov remarks in her brief Foreword, "to some extent, trace my slow movement from agnosticism to Christian faith, a movement incorporating much of doubt and questioning as well as affirmation.";The tide -- Believers -- Conjectures -- Fish and a honeycomb.
โฆ Subjects
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