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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- © 2017 Anglican Theological Review Corporation
- ISSN
- 0003-3286
- eISSN
- 2163-6214
- DOI
- 10.1177/000332861709900426
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
ATR/99.4 Book Reviews 831 Coring the Moon: Selected Poems. By Kenneth Frost. Charlotte, N.C.: Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2014. xi + 232 pp. $15.00 (paper). St. Gregory the Great advised readers of the Bible to “lift [themselves] from the story to the mystery.” Indeed, whereas we moderns are obsessed with the “story,” as in news accounts and so-called facts, to our diminish- ment, the ancients understood themselves more clearly as contingent be- ings engaged in larger patterns of perception. Their actions repeated and enlarged upon what they had learned of heroes and ancestors. God spoke with them. Their language is consequently alive with images, metaphors, parables, allegories, mystery, and dream—abundance. Kenneth Frost’s poems are metaphorically and imaginatively extrava- gant and exuberant. The book opens with “Night Jockey” (p. 3). The protago- nist “rides meteors / bareback, // hugging them, / urging them on, // whispers / into fire’s //ear.” In his poem “Explorer” (p. 81), a boy under ether “slid / through the black / fragrance of the brain / deeper / deeper / into its winged / empty space. // When the silence / knew it was a silence / it ripened and burst / open /
Journal
Anglican Theological Review – SAGE
Published: Aug 25, 2021