Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Will to Christ: [an oratorio] in four voices

David L. Swartz

0/5 ( ratings)

The author studied at Penn State, where he played no football, and Iowa, where he skirted the Workshop. He found God, lysergic acid, and despair in the Sixties, survived by getting that era into his art-some nineteen novels, twelve verse plays and more poetry than Browning. "The Will to Christ" contains ambition, a paean to bipolar disorder, four dramatic monologues by major players in the genesis and termination of the only messiah he's known, poetry on a sustained level that is often frightening.

While the author has two other books and over a hundred poems in print, another ninety wouldn't offer a tenth of what this great long-poem rewards in continued reading. Here is an epic, twenty-two years in the making, that summons even Milton. The latter would be clearly horrified.

Language: English

Pages: 84

Format: Paperback

Release: August 24, 2005

ISBN 13: 9780595368518

The Will to Christ: [an oratorio] in four voices

David L. Swartz

0/5 ( ratings)

The author studied at Penn State, where he played no football, and Iowa, where he skirted the Workshop. He found God, lysergic acid, and despair in the Sixties, survived by getting that era into his art-some nineteen novels, twelve verse plays and more poetry than Browning. "The Will to Christ" contains ambition, a paean to bipolar disorder, four dramatic monologues by major players in the genesis and termination of the only messiah he's known, poetry on a sustained level that is often frightening.

While the author has two other books and over a hundred poems in print, another ninety wouldn't offer a tenth of what this great long-poem rewards in continued reading. Here is an epic, twenty-two years in the making, that summons even Milton. The latter would be clearly horrified.

Language: English

Pages: 84

Format: Paperback

Release: August 24, 2005

ISBN 13: 9780595368518

More books from David L. Swartz

Norman's Rare Guitars

Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals: The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

3.5/5 ( ratings)

After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration

Shaksper: The Soliloquy

Nightwork: With Uncle Wiggily

الثقافة والقوة؛ علم اجتماع بياربورديو

Kültür ve İktidar: Pierre Bourdieu'nün Sosyolojisi

Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

Gnosis: Psalms for a Secular Age

Pieta`: Song of the Blessed Virgin

Herbie Hanson (Yeshua's Lessons in Life Series)

Diptych: Voyage to Ernie Spirit, Swell a Large Lament and Other Fictions

The Christmas Tree (Yeshua's Lessons in Life Series)

A Second Coming: [birth of the poet] a memoir

Triptych: 3 Biblical Fictions

Rothko

The Prodigal Son: with Esther and with Gethsemane

Rate this book!

Write a review?