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5.0 out of 5 stars
Full of beauty and courage and hope against despair,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Common Life (Paperback)
Common Life is the fifth published collection of poems by Robert Cording (Professor of English and Barrett Professor of Creative Writing at Holy Cross College) and infused with spirituality. Cording's themes include conflicted spirituality and the informed mysteries of life and death. A vastness of vision infuses the verse. Starkness is embraced and celebrated. Tormented dualities and unblessed beginnings, and endings, are still nourishment for the spirit. Where Cording casts his light, surprising enlivened details spring into being. The poem A Prayer to Adam exemplifies many of his approaches to a poetic spirituality: Muse of names,/ Help us to know/ What we cannot name./ Gardener of paradise,/ Help us grow upright/ With the modesty/ Of plants that find/ Freedom in their lack/ Of choices, and thrive./ Father of death,/ Help us to live/ With our dying/ So that we may find/ Ourselves walking back/ Down a path we forgot,/ Towards a field/ Here on earth/ Where the sun is/ So bright and clear/ Even the dullest sparrow/ Is seen in the richness/ Of its browns and grays/ The streaks on its breast/ Numbered in our sight. Common Life is full of beauty and courage and hope against despair. It is poetry for our time.
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Common Life by Robert Cording (Paperback - May 31, 2006)
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