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Article: Incarnation.(Book Review)
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- Hollins Critic
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- December 1, 1990
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Incarnation. Edited by Alfred Corn. New York: Viking Penguin. $19.95 (h.b.)
Incarnation is a first rate collection of essays by twenty-three contemporary novelists and poets on the books of the New Testament. Each book is given treatment by one writer and the collection is arranged in the order of a Protestant bible. For this reason, the book is designed for the reader to have a bible on hand while reading through Incarnation.
The editor of the book, Alfred Corn, is a well known poet and essayist. In his introduction Corn credits David Rosenberg's Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible as the inspiration behind Incarnation. While ...