The Work of Creation
Selected Prose
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2016
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Publisher's Description
In The Work of Creation, poet, editor, and translator Luke Hankins explores literature, art, aesthetics, ethics, religion, and the life of the spirit in a number of genres, including literary criticism, meditations on art and aesthetics, personal essays, and interviews. Collected in this volume are pieces that have appeared in such places as Books & Culture, Contemporary Poetry Review, Image, The Writer's Chronicle, and the American Public Media national radio program "On Being."
Endorsements (3)
“In his generous and illuminating volume of prose, Hankins demonstrates how much of poetry and the maturation of our engagement with it rely upon a power to contain opposites. . . . [T]he book honors a radiance of doubt that eschews both easy ironies and dogmatic polemics. The subtext here is gratitude, a love of work, and a deepening summons to the complexity of art as bound to the complexity of our condition. A beautiful book.”
“This collection is tuned to the pitch of listening--listening with fine intelligence as Hankins explores the nuances of poetry, culture, and history: the soul.”
“'In his newest book, The Work of Creation: Selected Prose, poet, editor, translator, and literary critic Luke Hankins 'continue[s] to work out' not his 'salvation with fear and trembling,' but the very process and scope of creation itself as it applies to the aesthetic, ethical, and spiritual. The book spans Hankins's many roles as writer-scholar. It is precisely this combination of insightful scholarly attention and boldly personal meditations that makes this collection a 'work of creation.''”
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