Of Love and Angels
Poems for My Fiancée
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2023
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Publisher's Description
Of Love and Angels: Poems for My Fiancee is a love-gift made by the author to celebrate his engagement. It is a collection of thirty love poems that melds romantic, earthly love with the love of God and the divine. The poetry attests to the sacredness of romantic love as a spiritual venture in our increasingly disenchanted world. The use of verse forms such as the heroic couplet and ballad and the application of traditional methods of rhyme and meter is a deliberate attempt to reconnect with the musicality of past poetics--to the lyric traditions of poetry and hymn in which Christianity is so abundantly rich. Free-verse compositions also feature throughout the collection and present an opportunity for contemplation on how both old and new forms alike can express romantic and spiritual sentiment in a way that resonates powerfully with our contemporary ways of life.
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Foreword
“With Of Love and Angels, Christian Alexander Barkman, still a very young man, joins a noble tradition as one of the singers of the Song of Songs, the song of the longing of Man and God, for all of us to be as we should be, for all of us to be together as we should. As love transforms the lovers, were this message to be heard on earth, the world would be transformed: it would become the earthly heavenly city.”
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