Gift Songs Burnside JohnPaperback
Gift Songs Burnside JohnPaperback To the Shakers, a good song was a gift; indeed the test of a song s goodness was how much of a gift it was. In his 10th collection, John Burnside begins with an…
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Gift Songs Burnside JohnPaperback
To the Shakers, a good song was a gift; indeed the test of a song s goodness was how much of a gift it was. In his 10th collection, John Burnside begins with an interrogation of the gift song, treating matters of faith and connection, the community of living creatures and the idea of a free churchwhere faith is placed, not in dogma or a possible credo, but in the indefinableand moves on through explorations of time and place, towards a tentative and idiosyncratic "re-ligere," the beginnings of a renewal of the connection to, and faith in, an ordered world. In their call to "labour to make the way of God your own," Shaker artists expressed an aesthetic that had much in common with the old Japanese notion, attributed to Hokusai, that to paint bamboo, one had first to "become" bamboo.
The book closes with a series of meditations on place, entitled "Four Quartets," intended both as a
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