Overview
Long admired as a compassionate churchman and a superb scholar, Rowan Williams is also a poet of resounding voice and feeling. His earthy, poetic meditations are for everyone, religious and nonreligious alike. Archbishop Williams speaks from the crucible of faith, yet his words emerge from the universal experience of life. "I dislike the idea of being a religious poet," he says. "I would prefer to be a poet for whom religious things matter intensely." sThe Poems of Rowan Williams gathers all of the poems from the Archbishop's two previous collections, After Silent Centuries (1994) and Remembering Jerusalem (2001), and includes some more recent ones as well. The subject matter of these sixty-five poems ranges broadly -- the natural world, works of art, a visit to the Holy Land at Easter, ancient Celtic artifacts, a group of thin girls waiting at a bus stop, grief at the loss of loved ones. Readers from all walks of life will come to cherish this choice collection of verse.Synopsis
Long admired as a compassionate churchman and a superb scholar, Rowan Williams is also a poet of resounding voice and feeling. His earthy, poetic meditations are for everyone, religious and nonreligious alike. Archbishop Williams speaks from the crucible of faith, yet his words emerge from the universal experience of life. "I dislike the idea of being a religious poet," he says. "I would prefer to be a poet for whom religious things matter intensely." sThe Poems of Rowan Williams gathers all of the poems from the Archbishop's two previous collections, After Silent Centuries (1994) and Remembering Jerusalem (2001), and includes some more recent ones as well. The subject matter of these sixty-five poems ranges broadly -- the natural world, works of art, a visit to the Holy Land at Easter, ancient Celtic artifacts, a group of thin girls waiting at a bus stop, grief at the loss of loved ones. Readers from all walks of life will come to cherish this choice collection of verse.