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“Each tucked string tells”: Buechner on the Rostrum

I’d never heard his speaking voice before and was stunned to hear even his casual, or social, remarks dealt out in the same elegant syntactic registry as his published writing. So, what is Buechner like as a sermonizer?

Old Books with Grace

I went on this fun podcast to talk S.T. Coleridge and creative resurrection.

Galahad and the Grail by Malcom Guite

What treasure has been hauled up from the ancient wells in this outing—the Arthur stories re-Christianized after so much balkanization, a myth for England proffered at an hour of dire need, but also the poetic epic resuscitated as a fit mode for history, for fantasy, for fun. This book teems with a vitality rarely found in contemporary work because it can’t be: its older than that, deeper than the green of upland hills, sweeter than festival-tide communion wine, but also rough, and brave, and strange as a stone circle, and older magic still.  

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