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Raising the Dead, by Ron Rash; Iris Press, 2002, about $25.
The Light Trap, by John Burnside; Cape Poetry, 2002, about $24.
THE NOTION of words as embodiments of ideas, analogous to the relationship between the body and soul, matter and spirit, is one that has dominated Western thinking since Aristotle. St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas developed the theme with particular reference to the Incarnation, the Word made flesh, and medieval man inhabited a world permeated by presence, whose centre was the Mass, where language helped bring about the Real Presence of Christ on the altar, the continuation of the Incarnation in time and space. Catholic and ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Glimmering Substance.(A review of two books of American contemporary...