Synopsis:

The Book of Unknowing meditates on Johns confrontation with the incandescent Jesus, a figure of our desire for immortality. Guiding us through the Gospels coming to grips with Jesus, the poet David Sten Herrstrom prefers sparking the imagination to arguing a thesis, as he explores Johns own obsessions, such as image (light), symbol (water), sign (water to wine), shapeliness (symmetry), loves (Peter, Marys), and above all, words (the Word, the body of Jesus).
The result is a heady, literary engagement not afraid of wit and paradox. For anyone who loves literature or whose business...