Dr. Anne Pasero is Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her research specializations include contemporary Hispanic poetry and literature of the Spanish Golden Age. She has published articles on Renaissance theater, Spanish women's poetry and a book on the renowned poet Clara Janés, who lives and writes in Madrid.
Dr. John Pustejovsky is Associate Professor of German at Marquette University, where he teaches courses on the German short story, poetry, and the experience of resistance in German literature and film.
“And have you changed your life?” The Challenge of Listening to the Spiritual in Contemporary Poetry
edited by Anne M. Pasero & John Pustejovsky
ISBN 978-1-62600-048-3
108 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 | Paperback | Illustrated | $14.00 | Index
Even as the jargon of business, technology and politics seems to turn language into tool and commodity, poets continue to find everyday experience that breathes the questions of human existence. This volume explores poets of three continents whose acts of naming even the bleakest and most ordinary experiences lend them dignity, depth, and a resonance of the mystery that is opened by words.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction...........................................................................................7
John Pustejovsky & Anne Pasero
2. Poems
Heather James........................................................................................11
3. Poem, Self, Voice and Spirit
Edwin Block...........................................................................................19
4. Love and Entropy in Ernesto Cardenal’s Pluriverse
Dinorah Cortés-Vélez...........................................................................33
5. Poetry and Spirituality: The Life Not In Parenthesis
John E. Curran, Jr...................................................................................41
6. Spirit of Self in the Mystic Poetry of Clara Jan.s
Anne Pasero...........................................................................................51
7. Czeslaw Milosz and the Witness of the Naked Poet
John Pustejovsky....................................................................................67
8. At Home in the Stranger’s House: Poetic Revision and Spiritual Practice
Angela Sorby..........................................................................................85
9. A Spiritual Director’s Response
Michael Dante....................................................................................... 99
Index............................................................................................107
Marquette University Press
