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Lacunae
- Author
- Scott Cairns
- Narrator
- Scott Cairns
- Publisher
- Paraclete Press
- Publish Date
- 16 November 2024
- Run Time
- 1 hour 1 minute
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
This is a book to savor slowly and return to often." — Malcolm Guite, author of Sounding the Seasons and other collections
New poetry from Scott Cairns on containing the uncontainable
Often, when speaking of what he has called the
poetic operation of language, Scott Cairns has characterized that event as our "glimpsing an indeterminate, inexhaustible enormity within a discrete space." This is the poet's continuing fascination with
lacunae, those spaces, those openings that offer more
within than appearances can register from outside the ostensible covert of their terms. Cairns is here focused upon how an image, a word, or—in the case of the Theotokos—
a womb can contain the uncontainable. As Orthodox hymnography avers, she is more spacious than the heavens. So, too, the poet suggests, in its own, modest way, the poem might give birth to more, and more, and yet more than even the poet supposes.
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- Author
- Scott Cairns
- Narrator
- Scott Cairns
- Duration
- 1 hour 1 minute
- Release Date
- 16 November 2024
- ISBN
- 9781640609518
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Paraclete Press
- Genre
- Poetry / Poems, Poetry / poems by individual poets
Synopsis
This is a book to savor slowly and return to often." — Malcolm Guite, author of Sounding the Seasons and other collections New poetry from Scott Cairns on containing the uncontainable Often, when speaking of what he has called the poetic operation of language, Scott Cairns has characterized that event as our "glimpsing an indeterminate, inexhaustible enormity within a discrete space." This is the poet's continuing fascination with lacunae, those spaces, those openings that offer more within than appearances can register from outside the ostensible covert of their terms. Cairns is here focused upon how an image, a word, or—in the case of the Theotokos— a womb can contain the uncontainable. As Orthodox hymnography avers, she is more spacious than the heavens. So, too, the poet suggests, in its own, modest way, the poem might give birth to more, and more, and yet more than even the poet supposes.
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