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Friday, August 5, 2016
Whiteness of Bone by Gloria Mindock
Certain
extraordinary people absorb the world’s suffering and cruelty; they identify
with the victims of inhumanity so closely that at times they seem to transfigure
themselves into exemplars of those unfortunates. Faith healers, saints, mystics
all possess a measure of this quality. In hagiography think of Francis of
Assisi, Theresa of Avila, and stigmatics like Padre Pio. On the secular side, singular
artists also manifest this imaginative and creative trait in different, but no
less extreme, forms—including and especially poets. For more of my review of Whiteness of Bone go here: http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2016/08/whiteness-of-bone-by-gloria-mindock.html
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