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Selected Publications


“You must be taught to love me”: On Louise Glück’s Choral Lyric

Journal Article Christianity & Literature · March 2025 Abstract: This essay considers the American poet Louise Glück’s 1992 lyric sequence, The Wild Iris , as a contemporary instantiation of theological choral. Following W. R. Johnson’s work on choral lyric, I propose an account of both ... Full text Cite

“This sea which utters me”: Reading W. S. Graham’s “The Nightfishing” in the Theological Wake of G. M. Hopkins’s “The Wreck of the Deutschland”

Journal Article Christianity & Literature · March 2024 Abstract: Despite the scant attention paid to his poetic oeuvre in U.S. academic circles, the Scottish poet W. S. Graham stands as one of the most theologically enigmatic poets of the mid-twentieth century. In this essay, I read his ... Full text Cite