I feared that in For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics, I would encounter a thin ... it lives in triumph,” and the creation-praising language of William Everson. Housden ...

Many poems do not call on any kind of a higher spiritual being as a source of joy—such as Li-Young Lee’s praise of the ... a monotheistic, and Christian, God. The poems in this collection ...

but wait, I muttered in my head, if praise is a language then what can we use it to say? How widely is it spoken, and should we maybe listen instead of talking so much? I have seen praise glowing in ...

Later Christian poetry often depicts Christ as a victim ... an early English poet named Caedmon learned in a dream how to praise God. We know another contemporary Christian poet named Cynewulf ...