The Love of God: New Poems and Essays

It has been a fairly crowded several weeks, for me, in terms of new publications, with the most exciting development being the series of podcasts I have recorded with Thomas V. Mirus. (You can visit those by clicking the Catholic Culture icon below.) I at last have a moment to gather together my recent written publications and, to round them off, a recording I made of one of the newly published poems, "The Love of God."  Scroll down to explore.

You can hear the "Mirus Sessions" as I call them by clicking at left.

The annual issue of the Alabama Literary Review has been published in print and will soon be released online.  For the present, click this icon to read the four poems I have in the issue: "At Season's End," "The Love of God," "In the Fullness of Rhyme," and "The Wisdom of Old Men." Clicking at left will open up a new window with the poems in a pdf file.

Poetry is as much an oral as a written art.  Click here to hear me recite "The Love of God," one of my simplest poems but with a most complex rhythm.

Among the greatest living Catholic writers of our day stands Paul Mariani.  Click here to read my retrospective essay on his work, which culminates in a review of his two most recent books.

And, finally, if you somehow missed my more recent column in The Catholic Thing, please click here to read, "There Is No Secular Culture."  It was possible, for a time, to suppose that the modern age would culminate in a form of civilization just like those of the past but with somewhat more immanent concerns, straddled somewhere between Arnold's liberal humanism and Nietzsche's Last Man.  It turns out, neither of those was viable, and this short essay helps explain why. I am glad they were not viable, of course.  Who could not be consoled to know that David Bentley Hart was correct, when he proclaimed the choice of our day is between "Christ or Nothing"?