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A Blessed Big Day: Collected Christmas Poems
ISBN-13: 9780977837298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 76 str.
A Blessed Big Day brings together more than fifty years of Ralph Brown's Christmas poems. These poems arise from a variety of places, cultures and circumstances. But while the subject matter of these verses spans the globe from villages of southern Pakistan to the woods of Royalston, Massachusetts, and ranges across an emotional scale from exhilaration to deep pain, they all reflect the transcendent joy, faith and reverence of an author who knows Jesus as God Incarnate, and who can write with confidence: If Christmas means what one can do Or is shaped by good health or clime Then the essence of Christmas remains With man and the fortunes of time. These poems also testify to an American poetic tradition, a tradition fading but still alive, which treats poetry not just as the property of literary professionals, but also as an expression of the every day lives, thought and experience of ordinary people. This is the tradition reflected in Best Loved Poems of the American People, and like that anthology, Ralph Brown's poems, often written hastily in the midst of the demands of work and circumstances, encourage us to keep alive the work of the everyday "rhymester."
A Blessed Big Day brings together morethan fifty years of Ralph BrownsChristmas poems. These poems arisefrom a variety of places, cultures andcircumstances. But while the subjectmatter of these verses spans the globefrom villages of southern Pakistan tothe woods of Royalston, Massachusetts,and ranges across an emotional scalefrom exhilaration to deep pain, they allreflect the transcendent joy, faith andreverence of an author who knows Jesusas God Incarnate, and who can writewith confidence:If Christmas means what one can doOr is shaped by good health or climeThen the essence of Christmas remainsWith man and the fortunes of time.These poems also testify to an Americanpoetic tradition, a tradition fading butstill alive, which treats poetry not justas the property of literary professionals,but also as an expression of the everyday lives, thought and experience ofordinary people. This is the traditionreflected in Best Loved Poems ofthe American People, and like thatanthology, Ralph Browns poems,often written hastily in the midst of thedemands of work and circumstances,encourage us to keep alive the work ofthe everyday "rhymester."
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