Tuesday, November 09, 2010

News at Eleven: [Kathleen Graber's] ability with metaphor

is masterful. Consider this startling image from the prologue poem: "Tolle! Lege!" where conversion is described as something whole but wholly shattered in the moment just before breaking. Both Augustine and St. Paul, converts for whom the prior world broke completely, could be imagined concurring:

from First Things: A Poet Haunted by Brokenness

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