{"id":2157,"date":"2018-01-18T11:10:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2018-01-18T11:10:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:10:56","slug":"between-faith-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/between-faith-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Faith & Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jennifer Wallace’s Almost Entirely<\/em><\/a> was featured in ImageUpdate. <\/em>Click here for the full roundup.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Referring to her new poetry collection, Jennifer Wallace remarks, \u201cI like the sense of \u2018entirely\u2019 modified by \u2018almost\u2019\u2026That\u2019s my sense of life in this world.\u201d These short poems limn the course of a mature artistic life and its struggle between faith and doubt, the incarnate and the unseen, love and loss.\u00a0Almost Entirely<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Wallace\u2019s seventh book,\u00a0<\/em>examines the search for wholeness, including re-exploration of Wallace\u2019s Christian roots. In the opening section, \u201cThe Wind of God\u201d is evoked as it \u201c\u2026moved over the face of the waters.\u201d Yet often, the writer notes, \u201cGod has turned my head in the right direction\/ yet I haven\u2019t seen the gesture for what it is.\u201d Vision necessitates discernment. Recalling Kierkegaard\u2019s observation that \u201cChristianity is not a consolation\/ but a demand,\u201d Wallace observes, \u201cCall me crazy, hardship appeals\/\u2026. now the problem of attending it begins.\u201d But attention can be difficult. Of a friend\u2019s murder, the poet writes: \u201cHow to feel his death? On the street. \/ The shots. My friend\u2019s scream.\u201d Even the faith that allows one to bear a \u201cwing giving way\u201d brings \u201cmeanings that will shatter me more than this.\u201d Nothing is sentimentalized here. As \u201cI Don\u2019t Like People; Animals, Too, Are an Imposition\u201d relates, our lives daily encompass ordinary trials, like \u201ca mean as a chainsaw bad neighbor.\u201d It is ours to get on with things; the poet \u201chas chores to do: chop wood, fix the wall in my yard.\u201d But luckily, there is also grace\u2019s blinding flash, that occasional release to something else, almost entirely: \u201cresting on its surface with sail or paddle\/I am brought beyond my landedness\/not until diving under can I know\/ its pillowed, dull moss-light\u2026a body is seen at last for what it is:\/awash in the eye of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Ann Conway, Image Update<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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