Kevin Hart (1) (1954–)
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About the Author
Kevin Hart is Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies at the Department of Religious Studies, of Virginia, USA. He also holds professorships in the Department of English and the Department of French. He is author of Kingdoms of Cod (2014).
Obras de Kevin Hart
Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary: The Mystical Text (Black Clouds Course Through Me Unending . . . ) (2013) 3 cópias
The Exorbitant: Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) (2010) 1 exemplar(es)
Madonna 1 exemplar(es)
'Maps of Deconstruction' in Meanjin 45/1, 1986 1 exemplar(es)
''The Rapid Impatient Labour of the Negative': reading Harold Bloom' in Scripsi 9/1 September 1993 (1993) 1 exemplar(es)
The Lasts day 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Phenomenology and Eschatology (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies) (2009) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
Christianity and Secular Reason: Classical Themes and Modern Developments (Thresholds in Philosophy and Theology) (2012) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Between Philosophy and Theology: Contemporary Interpretations of Christianity (2010) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Cross and khôra : deconstruction and Christianity in the work of John D. Caputo (2010) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1954-07-05
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Australia
- Locais de residência
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Notre Dame, Indiana, USA - Educação
- Australian National University
University of Melbourne - Ocupação
- theologian
philosopher
poet - Premiações
- Christopher Brennan Award (1999)
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Prêmios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 33
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 267
- Popularidade
- #86,454
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 110
- Idiomas
- 1
The publication of another collection of the best of Australian religious verse (the first was Les Murray's 1986 "Anthology" is an important event. It illustrates both the maturity and breadth of Australian poetry and also the continuing emergence of a peculiarly Australian religious sensibility - an Australian spirituality.
The greeting card genre of Christian verse irritates me thoroughly. The kind of poetry with enervating insights like
To be with the Lord all the day long
Needs in the depth of your heart a song
has given religious poetry a bad name, because it trivialises spirituality. You need great strength of patience to read doggerel like it.
If you are looking for this kind of poetry, Kevin Hart's anthology will disappoint you. In his preface, Hart, a poet and academic at Monash University, explains the criteria on which he based the choice of poems: religious feeling expressed in "distinguished poetry".
Aboriginal chants are represented, a Jewish midrash appears in strong verse, several Taoist meditations are here, and the spiritual sensitivities of several atheists are shared. Most of the selection, however, is twentieth Christian poetry, from the enigmatic, academic and intense poems of Francis Webb, to the open-hearted and accessible James McAuley.
Among the Anglicans, it is good to see a wide selection from Gwen Harwood - whom Ann Carnley has been enthusiastically introducing to recent Anglican Summer School participants.
Kevin Hart has arranged the poets alphabetically. For me, this adds to the enjoyment of each poem as individually crafted piece, and makes the book much easier to ladle into, on a kind of lucky dip search, and pluck a new word treasure at each opening.
For example, the arresting beginning of David Campbell's Among the Farms:
May He who sent His only Son
To torment on a cross of wood,
Look twice on animal and man
Caught in the narrow ways of blood.
Or Judith Wright's appeal To One Dying:
But come; the angel calls.
Deep in the dreamer's cave
the one pure source upwells
its single luminous wave;
and there, Recorder, Seer,
you wait with your cell.
I bring, in love and fear,
the world I know too well
into your hands. Receive
these fractured days I yield.
There is, of course, no way to review the content of a poetry anthology. What is presented in Kevin Hart's collection is a wide spectrum of thought, belief and image alerting our hearts to the spiritual dimension of life.
I paid $34.95 for my copy, and it's the kind of book that is worth owning - or giving as a significant gift to a word-sensitive Christian friend. But do at least check it out in your local library. It's a collection of value.
© Ted Witham 1993
First published in Anglican Messenger 1993… (mais)