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Hearts Go Walking: Conversations Between Poetry, Prayer And Theology, Vaughan S. Roberts Sep 2007

Hearts Go Walking: Conversations Between Poetry, Prayer And Theology, Vaughan S. Roberts

Vaughan S Roberts

There are many potential connections between poetry, prayer and theology. This presentation briefly explores each subject in turn before looking at how they might converse with each other through various poems under the headings of: (a) prayer in the world; (b) prayer as lover; (c) prayer as apophatic encounter; and (d) prayer as divine meeting.


After Sorrow, Maryjan Munger Jul 2007

After Sorrow, Maryjan Munger

BYU Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Supreme Fiction: Fiction Or Fact?, Gregory Brazeal Jan 2007

The Supreme Fiction: Fiction Or Fact?, Gregory Brazeal

Gregory Brazeal

The article makes a case for giving up the quest to identify Wallace Stevens’ “supreme fiction.” The poet hoped to usher in the creation of an idea that would serve as a fictive replacement for the idea of God, known to be fictive but willfully believed. His hope has remained unfulfilled. By the poet’s own explicit standards, the supreme fiction does not appear in any of his poems, nor in his poetry as a whole, nor in poetry in general. The very idea of a supreme fiction may depend, at least in part, upon a problematic conception of belief drawn …


Watermark: The Reservoir, Dixie L. Partridge Jan 2007

Watermark: The Reservoir, Dixie L. Partridge

BYU Studies Quarterly

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Generous Poetry: A Conversation With Dixie L. Partridge, Casualene Meyr Jan 2007

Generous Poetry: A Conversation With Dixie L. Partridge, Casualene Meyr

BYU Studies Quarterly

Dixie L. Partridge is a regular contributor to BYU Studies, a poetry editor, and widely published poet. Her willingness to agree to an interview, and her ample patience during the process, all speak of a generosity of spirit that matches her generous verse.

I hope you will enjoy learning more about Dixie L. Partridge as a person and poet. Additional information on Partridge and her publications is now available by visiting the Mormon Literature Database through BYU’s Harold B. Lee Library, at mormon.lit.byu.edu.


Pool Of Aspen: After Forty Years, Dixie L. Partridge Jan 2007

Pool Of Aspen: After Forty Years, Dixie L. Partridge

BYU Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Luggage For One Leaving, Dixie L. Partridge Jan 2007

Luggage For One Leaving, Dixie L. Partridge

BYU Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.