A Poetics of orthodoxy
“From Dante to Eliot to now, Benjamin Myers guides his pilgrim readers through the best of what has been said and thought. As a poet, he shares his love of beautiful verse, and as a thinker, he unveils the theology behind writers’ use of image, form, and metaphor. . . . Myers provides us more tools for cultivating a poetic imagination, so we may better hear the voice of God.”
—Jessica Hooten Wilson
“How radical and courageous it sounds to begin a book about poetry, as Benjamin Myers does, ‘I am a poet and a Christian.’ Myers makes an argument that Christian poetry, like all good poetry, ‘strives towards uniting words and world.’ We need a book like this for poetry and Christianity in the twenty-first century.”
—Mark Jarman
—Jessica Hooten Wilson
“How radical and courageous it sounds to begin a book about poetry, as Benjamin Myers does, ‘I am a poet and a Christian.’ Myers makes an argument that Christian poetry, like all good poetry, ‘strives towards uniting words and world.’ We need a book like this for poetry and Christianity in the twenty-first century.”
—Mark Jarman