The Necessary Poetics of Atheism: Essays and Poems - Softcover

Espada, Martín; Schmidt, Lauren Marie; Schraffenberger, J D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0986159735 ISBN 13: 9780986159732

Publisher: Twelve Winters Press, 2016

Synopsis

"The Necessary Poetics of Atheism" collects poems and essays by three award-winning contemporary poets who demonstrate how atheism informs their poetics: as "a vehicle of political protest" in the work of Martín Espada, as a form of activism and secular goodness in Lauren Marie Schmidt's poems, and as an aesthetic confrontation of a theistic worldview in J. D. Schraffenberger's writing. An enlightening foreword by the atheist philosopher Andrew Sneddon and a compelling introduction by poet Heid E. Erdrich invite us to read these "uneasy, contentious, complex, powerful, triumphant voices that allow goodness to shine without God." Espada asks, "Where, then, does an atheist poet put his or her faith? Where do we find our salvation? Some poets would say: Poetry." Put your faith in "The Necessary Poetics of Atheism" and find salvation in these provocative pages.

About this title

About the Author:

Martin Espada has published nearly twenty books as poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His most recent collection of poems is Vivas to Those Who Have Failed. Other collections of poems include The Trouble Ball, The Republic of Poetry, and Alabanza. Among his many honors is the Shelley Memorial Award. He is professor of English at University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

About this edition

• Publisher: Twelve Winters Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0986159735
• ISBN 13: 9780986159732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76