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Article: The Gospels in Our Image.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 21, 1998
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The Gospels in Our Image. or Edited by David Curzon. Harcourt Brace, 279 pp., $30.00.
I have long been an evangelist for poetry, a word which seems to engender as much cheer in the average American as the word "Calvinism." I am not easily discouraged, and in most of my speaking engagements manage to sneak in a poem or two, by myself and other contemporary poets, to demonstrate that listening to poetry can be enjoyable as well as illuminating.
In tact, as an oral art, poetry is far more compelling than prose, something that is reconfirmed to me every time I begin to read a poem in the middle of a sermon and observe people sitting up straighter and ...