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An Evensong: Poems

by Nathaniel A. Schmidt
Paperback |English |1532604815 | 9781532604812

An Evensong: Poems

by Nathaniel A. Schmidt
Paperback |English |1532604815 | 9781532604812
Overview

Like the religious service for which this romantic collection is named, An Evensong employs poetic forms within an ecclesiastical context as it endeavors to order and make meaning of our broken world. Using characters and settings as varied as monks in medieval monasteries, middle-aged sons in suburban shopping malls, poets in funeral parlors, and combat veterans in college classrooms, these poems form a congregation that longs to receive grace, and yet this revelation often seems beyond mere human grasp. To assist with this mystical pursuit, the verses turn to the scriptures, mythology, history, and the arts to discern some truth from these transcendent traditions. Although the poems do not shy away from humanity's propensity for destruction, their inherently creative discipline leads them on a journey toward a creative God, one whom they might glimpse with hope and wonder. Thus, the collection becomes a meditation on devotion and worship, much like its namesake's liturgy, interested in how our relationship with the Word creates a meaningful existence. ""Awake and observant, Nathaniel Schmidt's An Evensong invites us into reckoning by its rich articulation of the grandiose and the quotidian. Full of surprising accessibility in the face of their erudition, and bustling with gratitude for the Romantic and Metaphysical poets who have shaped his tradition, Schmidt's poems break, blow, and burn to name the truest wisdoms of our luminous being--mind, body, and soul."" --Dave Harrity, author of These Intricacies ""If poetry is meant to open up what is frozen within us, Schmidt's poetry does that through its surprising juxtapositions, startling images, range of language, and allusive quality. This is the poetry of a celebratory journey, leading us more and more into the surprising quality of human creativity."" --Gary Schmidt, Professor of English, Calvin College ""Schmidt's poems embody his eager desire to receive and explore the world, a desire akin to hatchlings who stretch their naked necks to receive a worm, their beaks 'voicing / psalms and complaints to the descending parent.' These poems are the psalms and complaints of a poet making sense of the gift of life. Rich with theology, tradition, and insight, this book composes a lush liturgy."" --Jeffrey Bilbro, Assistant Professor of English, Spring Arbor University ""This first book comprehends what Emerson meant when he said that language is fossil poetry. Schmidt rescues from the boneyard all the organic bits and renders out the marrow. These bones not only live, they sing."" --L. S. Klatt, author of Sunshine Wound ""In Schmidt's poetry, readers will encounter lines rich with attention to imagery, rhythm, and sound. An Evensong is a chronicle of a poet engaging meaningfully with art, literature, and faith, and doing so with reverence and insight."" --Nathaniel L. Hansen, editor of The Windhover Nathaniel A. Schmidt's poetry can be found in various journals including Windhover, Perspectives, The Anglican Theological Review, and The Penwood Review. Holding a Bachelor's degree in English from Calvin College, and a Master's degree, also in English, from the University of Illinois Springfield, he has taught for Spring Arbor University, Jackson College, and Grace College. Originally from the Chicago-land area, he currently resides in southwest Michigan, where he continues to find joy in the Word.
ISBN: 1532604815
ISBN13: 9781532604812
Author: Nathaniel A. Schmidt
Publisher: Resource Publications
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2016-12-22
Language: English
PageCount: 82
Dimensions: 6.0 x 0.19 x 9.0 inches
Weight: 6.4 ounces

Like the religious service for which this romantic collection is named, An Evensong employs poetic forms within an ecclesiastical context as it endeavors to order and make meaning of our broken world. Using characters and settings as varied as monks in medieval monasteries, middle-aged sons in suburban shopping malls, poets in funeral parlors, and combat veterans in college classrooms, these poems form a congregation that longs to receive grace, and yet this revelation often seems beyond mere human grasp. To assist with this mystical pursuit, the verses turn to the scriptures, mythology, history, and the arts to discern some truth from these transcendent traditions. Although the poems do not shy away from humanity's propensity for destruction, their inherently creative discipline leads them on a journey toward a creative God, one whom they might glimpse with hope and wonder. Thus, the collection becomes a meditation on devotion and worship, much like its namesake's liturgy, interested in how our relationship with the Word creates a meaningful existence. ""Awake and observant, Nathaniel Schmidt's An Evensong invites us into reckoning by its rich articulation of the grandiose and the quotidian. Full of surprising accessibility in the face of their erudition, and bustling with gratitude for the Romantic and Metaphysical poets who have shaped his tradition, Schmidt's poems break, blow, and burn to name the truest wisdoms of our luminous being--mind, body, and soul."" --Dave Harrity, author of These Intricacies ""If poetry is meant to open up what is frozen within us, Schmidt's poetry does that through its surprising juxtapositions, startling images, range of language, and allusive quality. This is the poetry of a celebratory journey, leading us more and more into the surprising quality of human creativity."" --Gary Schmidt, Professor of English, Calvin College ""Schmidt's poems embody his eager desire to receive and explore the world, a desire akin to hatchlings who stretch their naked necks to receive a worm, their beaks 'voicing / psalms and complaints to the descending parent.' These poems are the psalms and complaints of a poet making sense of the gift of life. Rich with theology, tradition, and insight, this book composes a lush liturgy."" --Jeffrey Bilbro, Assistant Professor of English, Spring Arbor University ""This first book comprehends what Emerson meant when he said that language is fossil poetry. Schmidt rescues from the boneyard all the organic bits and renders out the marrow. These bones not only live, they sing."" --L. S. Klatt, author of Sunshine Wound ""In Schmidt's poetry, readers will encounter lines rich with attention to imagery, rhythm, and sound. An Evensong is a chronicle of a poet engaging meaningfully with art, literature, and faith, and doing so with reverence and insight."" --Nathaniel L. Hansen, editor of The Windhover Nathaniel A. Schmidt's poetry can be found in various journals including Windhover, Perspectives, The Anglican Theological Review, and The Penwood Review. Holding a Bachelor's degree in English from Calvin College, and a Master's degree, also in English, from the University of Illinois Springfield, he has taught for Spring Arbor University, Jackson College, and Grace College. Originally from the Chicago-land area, he currently resides in southwest Michigan, where he continues to find joy in the Word.

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Overview

Like the religious service for which this romantic collection is named, An Evensong employs poetic forms within an ecclesiastical context as it endeavors to order and make meaning of our broken world. Using characters and settings as varied as monks in medieval monasteries, middle-aged sons in suburban shopping malls, poets in funeral parlors, and combat veterans in college classrooms, these poems form a congregation that longs to receive grace, and yet this revelation often seems beyond mere human grasp. To assist with this mystical pursuit, the verses turn to the scriptures, mythology, history, and the arts to discern some truth from these transcendent traditions. Although the poems do not shy away from humanity's propensity for destruction, their inherently creative discipline leads them on a journey toward a creative God, one whom they might glimpse with hope and wonder. Thus, the collection becomes a meditation on devotion and worship, much like its namesake's liturgy, interested in how our relationship with the Word creates a meaningful existence. ""Awake and observant, Nathaniel Schmidt's An Evensong invites us into reckoning by its rich articulation of the grandiose and the quotidian. Full of surprising accessibility in the face of their erudition, and bustling with gratitude for the Romantic and Metaphysical poets who have shaped his tradition, Schmidt's poems break, blow, and burn to name the truest wisdoms of our luminous being--mind, body, and soul."" --Dave Harrity, author of These Intricacies ""If poetry is meant to open up what is frozen within us, Schmidt's poetry does that through its surprising juxtapositions, startling images, range of language, and allusive quality. This is the poetry of a celebratory journey, leading us more and more into the surprising quality of human creativity."" --Gary Schmidt, Professor of English, Calvin College ""Schmidt's poems embody his eager desire to receive and explore the world, a desire akin to hatchlings who stretch their naked necks to receive a worm, their beaks 'voicing / psalms and complaints to the descending parent.' These poems are the psalms and complaints of a poet making sense of the gift of life. Rich with theology, tradition, and insight, this book composes a lush liturgy."" --Jeffrey Bilbro, Assistant Professor of English, Spring Arbor University ""This first book comprehends what Emerson meant when he said that language is fossil poetry. Schmidt rescues from the boneyard all the organic bits and renders out the marrow. These bones not only live, they sing."" --L. S. Klatt, author of Sunshine Wound ""In Schmidt's poetry, readers will encounter lines rich with attention to imagery, rhythm, and sound. An Evensong is a chronicle of a poet engaging meaningfully with art, literature, and faith, and doing so with reverence and insight."" --Nathaniel L. Hansen, editor of The Windhover Nathaniel A. Schmidt's poetry can be found in various journals including Windhover, Perspectives, The Anglican Theological Review, and The Penwood Review. Holding a Bachelor's degree in English from Calvin College, and a Master's degree, also in English, from the University of Illinois Springfield, he has taught for Spring Arbor University, Jackson College, and Grace College. Originally from the Chicago-land area, he currently resides in southwest Michigan, where he continues to find joy in the Word.
ISBN: 1532604815
ISBN13: 9781532604812
Author: Nathaniel A. Schmidt
Publisher: Resource Publications
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2016-12-22
Language: English
PageCount: 82
Dimensions: 6.0 x 0.19 x 9.0 inches
Weight: 6.4 ounces

Like the religious service for which this romantic collection is named, An Evensong employs poetic forms within an ecclesiastical context as it endeavors to order and make meaning of our broken world. Using characters and settings as varied as monks in medieval monasteries, middle-aged sons in suburban shopping malls, poets in funeral parlors, and combat veterans in college classrooms, these poems form a congregation that longs to receive grace, and yet this revelation often seems beyond mere human grasp. To assist with this mystical pursuit, the verses turn to the scriptures, mythology, history, and the arts to discern some truth from these transcendent traditions. Although the poems do not shy away from humanity's propensity for destruction, their inherently creative discipline leads them on a journey toward a creative God, one whom they might glimpse with hope and wonder. Thus, the collection becomes a meditation on devotion and worship, much like its namesake's liturgy, interested in how our relationship with the Word creates a meaningful existence. ""Awake and observant, Nathaniel Schmidt's An Evensong invites us into reckoning by its rich articulation of the grandiose and the quotidian. Full of surprising accessibility in the face of their erudition, and bustling with gratitude for the Romantic and Metaphysical poets who have shaped his tradition, Schmidt's poems break, blow, and burn to name the truest wisdoms of our luminous being--mind, body, and soul."" --Dave Harrity, author of These Intricacies ""If poetry is meant to open up what is frozen within us, Schmidt's poetry does that through its surprising juxtapositions, startling images, range of language, and allusive quality. This is the poetry of a celebratory journey, leading us more and more into the surprising quality of human creativity."" --Gary Schmidt, Professor of English, Calvin College ""Schmidt's poems embody his eager desire to receive and explore the world, a desire akin to hatchlings who stretch their naked necks to receive a worm, their beaks 'voicing / psalms and complaints to the descending parent.' These poems are the psalms and complaints of a poet making sense of the gift of life. Rich with theology, tradition, and insight, this book composes a lush liturgy."" --Jeffrey Bilbro, Assistant Professor of English, Spring Arbor University ""This first book comprehends what Emerson meant when he said that language is fossil poetry. Schmidt rescues from the boneyard all the organic bits and renders out the marrow. These bones not only live, they sing."" --L. S. Klatt, author of Sunshine Wound ""In Schmidt's poetry, readers will encounter lines rich with attention to imagery, rhythm, and sound. An Evensong is a chronicle of a poet engaging meaningfully with art, literature, and faith, and doing so with reverence and insight."" --Nathaniel L. Hansen, editor of The Windhover Nathaniel A. Schmidt's poetry can be found in various journals including Windhover, Perspectives, The Anglican Theological Review, and The Penwood Review. Holding a Bachelor's degree in English from Calvin College, and a Master's degree, also in English, from the University of Illinois Springfield, he has taught for Spring Arbor University, Jackson College, and Grace College. Originally from the Chicago-land area, he currently resides in southwest Michigan, where he continues to find joy in the Word.

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  • Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, but the text cannot be obscured or unreadable.

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You may return most items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund.

To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.

Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases.

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  • Gift cards
  • Downloadable software products
  • Some health and personal care items

To complete your return, we require a tracking number, which shows the items which you already returned to us.
There are certain situations where only partial refunds are granted (if applicable)

  • Book with obvious signs of use
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  • Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error
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