Six Sundays Toward a Seventh
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Description:These poems--selected from the award-winning poets output over four decades--more explicitly than any of his prior volumes address the centrality of Christian vision to his aims and aspirations. Lea looks unflinchingly at all that may challenge his faith: the cruelties of both natural and human worlds, the attractions of jolly, good-hearted secularism, the distortions of doctrinaire religiosity, the seeming pointlessness of untimely deaths; but his faith in Christian redemption shines through even the bleakest of his poems.Endorsements:The life in Sydney Leas poems is entirely local, whether the locale is Italy, Montana, or his home in Vermont . . . The making of the soul that occurs in Sydney Leas poems is intimately connected with the place where the making occurs . . . Sydney Leas poems show us that all spirituality is local spirituality. He is our preeminent poet of the souls making among local places and people.--Mark Jarman Author of Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems Sydney Leas heartbreaking and heartening poems look, with the utmost honesty, at what we may or may not be / here on earth. . . . [These] urgent poems give us back the depth of our existence. With intelligence, passion, and humility, Lea embraces the task he has been given: to record those warming recollections of parents, friends, wife and children, and to acknowledge how this splendid universe subsumes . . . his small dumb witness into a hymn of grateful praise. --Robert Cording Author of Walking with RuskinIn this book Sydney Lea invites us to take a spiritual journey . . . By the end of Six Sundays, the narrator and the reader step together into radiant light. What is so moving about Six Sundays is not only its wrestling with spiritual questions, but also Leas affirmation that life is a spiritual journey and that this journey is of paramount importance.--Jeanne Murray WalkerAuthor of A Deed to the LightFrom his experience of doubt to h
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