Rewriting the Word "God : In the Arc of Converging Lines between Innovative Theory, Theology, and Poetry - Romana Huk

Rewriting the Word "God

In the Arc of Converging Lines between Innovative Theory, Theology, and Poetry

By: Romana Huk

Paperback | 14 February 2025

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Innovative poetry, philosophy, theology and new sciences converge in the project of rewriting the word "God"

In Rewriting the Word "God," Romana Huk examines the substantive connections between innovative poetry of the last century and contemporary theology and philosophy. Along the way, we encounter ten poets who have, without abandoning their inherited or chosen faith traditions, radically rethought conceptualizations of divinity, human ontology, and the real.

From the startlingly proto-phenomenological encounters with nature by Gerard Manley Hopkins to the post-deconstructive pursuit of "oracular" speech in Fanny Howe, these poets have found inspiration in a wide range of sources, from ancient religious texts to modern philosophical movements. But what unites them is their willingness to continually change, experiment and challenge the status quo, both in their religious beliefs and their poetic practice.

Huk shows how these poets have used their work to explore ultimate questions of life and death, meaning and purpose, and the relationship between humans and materiality, humans and other humans, which for these poets sheds light on humanity's relationship with the divine. She also highlights the ways in which they have engaged with social and political issues in their poetry to speak out against injustice and oppression.

Rewriting the Word "God" is a thought-provoking and inspiring work that will challenge current perceptions of both religion and poetry from new positions at the intersection of faith, art, philosophy, science, literary theory, and culture.

Industry Reviews
"The capacious range of thinkers--from philosophy, theology, poetry--brought into the study manifests an amazingly comprehensive intellectual context that the author has analyzed, synthesized, and laid before us in strikingly original and foundational ways for reading this poetry and its religious leanings." --Linda Kinnahan author of Feminist Modernism, Poetics, and the New Economy: Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, and Marianne Moore

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