Amounting to Nothing - Paul Quenon, OCSO
| Автор: | Paul Quenon, OCSO |
| Издательство: | Ingram |
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| Жанр произведения: | Зарубежные стихи |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9781640602380 |
After 60 years at Gethsemani Abbey, Br. Paul follows up his recent memoir, In Praise of the Useless Life, with a poetic collection that shows how to do just that – by writing poetry. Amounting to Nothing is both practical and metaphysical, a puzzling over the ultimate things of life, and a descending on the Benedictine ladder of humility to the earthly creatures surrounding a Kentucky monastery. This is less an exploration in self-knowledge than a forgetting of self in the wonders of everything. Quenon treads bare footed on the margins of mortality and immortality, with wit, thought, and hope.