The poem’s three stanzas echo the form of the Trinity. The first stanza, with its suggestion of divine love’s self-giving, and with the angelic denizens of heaven who “gave the sign,” points to God ...

My sense is that these poems might pick up someone’s spirit, they might deposit a resolution regarding some values,’ Forbes ...

By chance, I found an excellent such book in Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from East to West, Daniel Ladinsky, editor (New York: Penguin Compass, 2002).

Rather than love, the clenched-jaw sparseness of the poem also gestures to hate. The rhyme scheme, irregular but adamant, avoids seeming too studied and yet creates a taut cohesiveness, as if an ...

Rosenberg’s “God” offers a image of devastation that extends beyond the physical and psychological, and it is the way all his poems stretch beyond humanist revolt against horror and into a spiritual ...

At my local book superstore, Housden’s books take up a tenth of the limited shelf space reserved for poetry: Ten Poems to Change Your Life and its emphatic sequel, Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again ...

Tracy K. Smith is the author of three collections of poetry: "Life on Mars" (Graywolf Press, 2011); Duende (Graywolf, 2007), winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American ...

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If we take friendship to mean the love we have with others, and especially the love we have with the Other, God himself, ... Unlike the other creatures, man is not merely a poem but a poet!

The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people.