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The Ministries of Light: Poems and verse epistles
Abstract
The Ministries of Light: Poems and Verse Epistles is a collection of nine original poetic sequences, embracing an array of genres--journal letter, elegy, and lyric--and traditional verse forms--haiku, sonnet, blank verse, glosa, prose poem. Taken as a whole, the work is an extended meditation on personal poetics and ethics: how can one continue to live consciously and in relation in an increasingly atomized and automated world? and how does one forge a specifically poetic language expansive enough to accommodate extra-literary (social and philosophical) concerns without sacrificing the compression that has traditionally lent the English lyric its emotional resonance and power.
Subject Area
American literature|Modern literature|Creative writing
Recommended Citation
Merritt, Constance Rose, "The Ministries of Light: Poems and verse epistles" (1998). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9838600.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9838600