Heights and Depths - Softcover

Hobson, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1725289725 ISBN 13: 9781725289727

Verlag: Resource Publications, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

These poems make up the verbal equivalent of a synthetic cubist painting. Many facets of reality are on display as the poems move through depths and heights of human experience. The opening section presents a harsh evocation of the turbulence and violence in our world, yet with hints of hope. “We are God’s memories, / Preserved in his world, / Promised a future.” The second section is in a personal vein, exposing, not without humor, the poet’s struggles to find full self-acceptance as he discovers himself inside God’s love. Section three, in another register altogether, evokes the beauty of intensely observed aspects of the natural world, through which shines the mystery of physical reality. Section four, which includes a dramatic narrative account of a forest fire, moves in the realm of memory, its glories and its sorrows. The last section fleshes out, from a variety of angles, the hints of hope in section one, concluding with a startling (at moments comical) response to the wonder of the “moon-egg” that suddenly appears in the night sky from behind backlit clouds—and the poet asks, “Who laid it?” The imagery of these poems is original and vivid. We are carried on a truly exciting, unforgettable ride through a vast range of human experience.

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George Hobson is a priest in the Episcopal/Anglican Church. He has lived in France for over half his life, working with both French and English-speaking churches. He studied theology at Oxford in the 1980s and earned his doctorate in 1989. From 1995 to 2000 he held the post of Canon Pastor at the American Cathedral in Paris. With his wife Victoria he has travelled extensively in developing countries, notably Rwanda, Haiti, Pakistan, and Armenia, teaching courses in theological colleges. His first book of poetry, illustrated with his own art photographs, was published in England in 2005. Since then, with Wipf and Stock, he has published two books of theological/social analysis and four volumes of poetry: The Parthenon, May Day Morning in Yerevan, Heights and Depths, and A Far Country Here. His poem Sun Patch won Second Prize in the International Bridport Poetry Competition in 1995.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Resource Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1725289725
• ISBN 13: 9781725289727
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 110
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