The Opening Ritual
Publication Date
11-2024
Description
"In The Opening Ritual, G. C. Waldrep contends with the failure of the body, the irreducible body, in the light of faith. What can or should “healing” mean when it can’t ever mean “wholeness” again? And what kind of architecture is “mercy” when we live inside damage? These are poems that take both the material and the spiritual seriously, that cast their unsparing glances toward “All that is not / & could never be a parable.” -- back cover
The collection concludes with a sequence of truly grand meditations on spiritual consciousness--in one the poet notes how, in the stillness of contemplation, the world begins to hum and resound with music. The Opening Ritual attends to and fashions its song from that music.
ISBN
9781961209145
Keywords
Poetry, Chronic Illness, Religion, Christianity, Walking, Prayer
Disciplines
Poetry
Publisher
Tupelo Press
City
North Adams, Massachusetts
Department
English
Files
Recommended Citation
WALDREP, GEORGE C. III, "The Opening Ritual" (2024). Faculty Books. 152.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/books/152
