Article: Letters.(Letter to the Editor)

DEAR EDITORS,

I approached Ira Sadoff's column, subtitled "The Spiritualization of American Poetry," with great interest, and was immediately puzzled and annoyed to find that he seems to make zero distinction between the words "spiritual" and "religious." The words are huge, of course, and bleed into one another like "soul" and "spirit" do, or like "stone" and "rock" for that matter. But I believe--both in his essay and in the world at large--"religious" usually refers to a more political and social set of traditions to be contrasted with "secular," whereas "spiritual" usually refers to a more personal, private collection of attitudes perhaps contrasted with ...

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