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Common Life
Robert Cording
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Description for Common Life
Paperback. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 231.
Common Life looks at the various meanings of common, especially its senses of familiar and widely known; belong or relating to the community at large; and its twinned notions of simple and rudimentary and vulgar and profane. The book's perspective is religious, and is grounded in the epigraph from the Psalms: "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him." The "waiting" that is required has to do with three things: first, our desire, as Charles Wright puts it, "to believe in belief" rather than believe; secondly, the need for a setting aside of the self, an abandonment of ... Read more
Common Life looks at the various meanings of common, especially its senses of familiar and widely known; belong or relating to the community at large; and its twinned notions of simple and rudimentary and vulgar and profane. The book's perspective is religious, and is grounded in the epigraph from the Psalms: "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him." The "waiting" that is required has to do with three things: first, our desire, as Charles Wright puts it, "to believe in belief" rather than believe; secondly, the need for a setting aside of the self, an abandonment of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
CavanKerry Press United States
Number of pages
132
Condition
New
Number of Pages
132
Place of Publication
Fort Lee, United States
ISBN
9780972304573
SKU
V9780972304573
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About Robert Cording
ROBERT CORDING teaches English and creative writing at College of the Holy Cross, where he is the Barrett Professor of Creative Writing. He is the author of Life-list, which won the Ohio State University Press/Journal award in 1987; What Binds Us To This World (1991); Heavy Grace (1996); and Against Consolation (CavanKerry Press, 2002). He has received two grants in ... Read more
Reviews for Common Life
"Yehuda Amichai once divided poets into two categories: those with kishkas (guts) and those without. The latter type, he said, usually devised some justifying theory for their work, though they seldom touch the human heart. There's no question which group fits Robert Cording, who is as much amused, baffled, and enchanted by the spiritual world as by the physical one ... Read more