Article: On art, faith and the church.(poet Paul Mariani and illustrator Barry Moser overcome differences in common view of role of religion in creation)

If the medium is the message, then the art of engraving--a difficult and exacting technique of carving positive and negative spaces from the grain end of hard wood--is fitting illustration for a text that deals so much in the concrete and often juxtaposed occasions of joy and suffering.

"I cut the white areas away and leave the surface of the block standing. The tool pushes the material, it doesn't gouge it," explained Barry loser, whose work illustrates Paul Mariani's Deaths & Transfigurations: Poems. "Then it's locked into a printing press and struck with ink on a piece of paper."

"The medium is nothing if not disciplined," Hr. Moser continued. "It ...

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