Friday Links
February 9, 2023
Poems Ancient and Modern
Poetic Vision: The Catholic Case for Everyday Poetry
Trinitarian Genealogies: Father, Son, and the Spirit of Modernity
The Roots of Knowing: A Dive into Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse's Novellas
Hunger by Narine Abgaryan
Poems Ancient and Modern
Sally Thomas and Joseph Bottum have embarked upon a new adventure and it is glorious.
Poems Ancient and Modern is a publication about poetry. Joseph Bottum, a writer in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and Sally Thomas, in the Western Piedmont of North Carolina, choose and comment on poems, old and new, ancient and modern. Drawn from the deep traditions of English verse — the great work of the past and the living poets who keep those traditions alive — the poetry, with its accompanying commentary, demonstrates that poetry still enthralls the ear, instructs the mind, and aids the soul.
Poetic Vision: The Catholic Case for Everyday Poetry
The wonderful podcast, Risking Enchantment, with Rachel Sherlock and Phoebe Watson is a must-listen.
In this episode they discuss the place that poetry has in our everyday lives, its importance in our faith, and why it’s good to learn poetry by heart. We highlight some of the poems that have been most impactful in our lives and spotlight some of the great resources for Catholics interested in poetry today
Trinitarian Genealogies: Father, Son, and the Spirit of Modernity
Eduard Fiedler responds to Episode 2.3 of the Genealogies of Modernity podcast
Who am I?
This simple question may sound banal, but only if we do not take its simplicity seriously enough. On the one hand, this question concerns a simple identity, for I am who I am, and this identity is best expressed by my own name. From the moment Moses approached the burning bush, every name seems to be a name only insofar as it also says: I am who I am (Ex 3:13–14). On the other hand, my name is that by which my mother, father, and others address me. My identity is not just mine but includes all the relational determinations that place it in a chain of species and genera.
The Roots of Knowing: A Dive into Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse's Novellas
The Catholic intellectual tradition affirms the importance of clearly naming the things of God, while also acknowledging that the totality of the truth about God lives beyond all human capacity for language. How can art, which necessarily mediates truth through the senses, speak about what lies so far beyond the edges of human sensory experience? How might we find ourselves dwelling in the peace that passes all understanding—and how will we know when we are only lost in the dark forest? Through two novellas—Aliss at the Fire and A Shining—both by recent Nobel laureate and Norwegian Catholic convert Jon Fosse, our Global Catholic Literature seminar this spring will explore the roots of human knowing, naming, and dwelling between two worlds. It will take us into spaces of light and dark, presence and absence, the kataphatic and the apophatic. It will deepen an appreciation for both the numinous otherness of the unknown and for the breadth, height, and depth of the knowable truth. Deadline for sign up is February 25.
In this Ploughread story set in 1990s Armenia, survivors of war find a reason to go on living.
