Thick and Dazzling Darkness Students & student organisations and inspiration for living intentionally

and inspiration for living intentionally

Rena defied all of society's sexual norms

Is it possible she didn't really know him at all

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Thick and Dazzling Darkness Students & student organisations and inspiration for living intentionallyHow do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O'Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and importance of religious poetry in twentieth and twenty first century American literature. He traces a poetic genealogy that begins with Whitman and Dickinson