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2434456Beliefs and Blasphemieshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/beliefs-and-blasphemies-9780307554598/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3715563/e4da5426-1d92-473f-b2ef-ef564917e255.jpg?v=638385769637730000148164MXNRandom House Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p>Beliefs and Blasphemies exhibits the same qualities--accessibility, deep feeling, wisdom, humor, and technical brilliance--that made Virginia Hamilton Adairs first collection of poems, Ants on the Melon, into a bestseller and a literary landmark. Here Mrs. Adair devotes her attention to a single theme, religion, but in her brilliant performance the themes variations turn out to be wide and deep--from reverence to iconoclasm, from comedy to profundity, from joy to lament. If you are looking for Hallmark platitudes or E-Z faith, look elsewhere.</p><p>In "Saving the Songs," for example, we reconsider Martin Luthers penchant for recycling barroom tunes into hymns: "Said Luther of the singing in saloons,/Why should the devil have the choicest tunes?" More soberly, in "The Reassem-blage," we are asked to test the extremes of the Christian version of the hereafter--"one a verdict brutal beyond imagination,/the other by most reports an eternity of boredom"--against our hearts hopes. The conclusion? "Some myths are too terrible for our believing." "Goddesses First" muses about the primacy of female deities in many religious myths. "Choosing" uses the poets virtual blindness to explain her celebration of the only distinction her "frail vision can discern": the literal difference between night and day. Zen temples and the chapel at a state mental hospital, animism and meditation, whores and angels--this curious, witty, and compassionate sensibility encompasses them all.<br />Virginia Hamilton Adair is a uniquely American poet--restless in her lyrical investigations, hopeful and honest, rigorous in her formal accomplishments, spontaneous in her emotions. Beliefs and Blasphemies will appeal to anyone who has ever thought about first things or final things--anyone who enjoys speculating about how we got here and where were going--and it will reconfirm its authors stature as a national treasure.</p>...2371134Beliefs and Blasphemies148164https://www.gandhi.com.mx/beliefs-and-blasphemies-9780307554598/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3715563/e4da5426-1d92-473f-b2ef-ef564917e255.jpg?v=638385769637730000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20099780307554598_W3siaWQiOiIyY2U3Y2Q3Ni00ZDI3LTRlM2YtODZkNi01NmFmNzQyMjQ0NjIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjE2MywiZGlzY291bnQiOjE2LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE0NywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDVUMDg6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780307554598_<p>Beliefs and Blasphemies exhibits the same qualities--accessibility, deep feeling, wisdom, humor, and technical brilliance--that made Virginia Hamilton Adairs first collection of poems, Ants on the Melon, into a bestseller and a literary landmark. Here Mrs. Adair devotes her attention to a single theme, religion, but in her brilliant performance the themes variations turn out to be wide and deep--from reverence to iconoclasm, from comedy to profundity, from joy to lament. If you are looking for Hallmark platitudes or E-Z faith, look elsewhere.</p><p>In Saving the Songs, for example, we reconsider Martin Luthers penchant for recycling barroom tunes into hymns: Said Luther of the singing in saloons,/Why should the devil have the choicest tunes? More soberly, in The Reassem-blage, we are asked to test the extremes of the Christian version of the hereafter--one a verdict brutal beyond imagination,/the other by most reports an eternity of boredom--against our hearts hopes. The conclusion? Some myths are too terrible for our believing. Goddesses First muses about the primacy of female deities in many religious myths. Choosing uses the poets virtual blindness to explain her celebration of the only distinction her frail vision can discern: the literal difference between night and day. Zen temples and the chapel at a state mental hospital, animism and meditation, whores and angels--this curious, witty, and compassionate sensibility encompasses them all.<br />Virginia Hamilton Adair is a uniquely American poet--restless in her lyrical investigations, hopeful and honest, rigorous in her formal accomplishments, spontaneous in her emotions. Beliefs and Blasphemies will appeal to anyone who has ever thought about first things or final things--anyone who enjoys speculating about how we got here and where were going--and it will reconfirm its authors stature as a national treasure.</p>...(*_*)9780307554598_<p>Beliefs and Blasphemies exhibits the same qualities--accessibility, deep feeling, wisdom, humor, and technical brilliance--that made Virginia Hamilton Adairs first collection of poems, Ants on the Melon, into a bestseller and a literary landmark. Here Mrs. Adair devotes her attention to a single theme, religion, but in her brilliant performance the themes variations turn out to be wide and deep--from reverence to iconoclasm, from comedy to profundity, from joy to lament. If you are looking for Hallmark platitudes or E-Z faith, look elsewhere.</p><p>In "Saving the Songs," for example, we reconsider Martin Luthers penchant for recycling barroom tunes into hymns: "Said Luther of the singing in saloons,/Why should the devil have the choicest tunes?" More soberly, in "The Reassem-blage," we are asked to test the extremes of the Christian version of the hereafter--"one a verdict brutal beyond imagination,/the other by most reports an eternity of boredom"--against our hearts hopes. The conclusion? "Some myths are too terrible for our believing." "Goddesses First" muses about the primacy of female deities in many religious myths. "Choosing" uses the poets virtual blindness to explain her celebration of the only distinction her "frail vision can discern": the literal difference between night and day. Zen temples and the chapel at a state mental hospital, animism and meditation, whores and angels--this curious, witty, and compassionate sensibility encompasses them all.<br />Virginia Hamilton Adair is a uniquely American poet--restless in her lyrical investigations, hopeful and honest, rigorous in her formal accomplishments, spontaneous in her emotions. Beliefs and Blasphemies will appeal to anyone who has ever thought about first things or final things--anyone who enjoys speculating about how we got here and where were going--and it will reconfirm its authors stature as a national treasure.</p>...9780307554598_Random House Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_6ebcd7bf-4974-4b7b-b437-625fca587857_9780307554598;9780307554598_9780307554598Virginia AdairInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-24c77899-849c-49ff-b4c5-c62ca2757cd4.epub2009-03-04T00:00:00+00:00Random House Publishing Group