Trott All Day: A Compendium: Trotts Through the Ages, Trott James Howard
Автор: Trott James Howard Название: Immanence: Poems, Volume One, 1967-1988 ISBN: 0986101001 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780986101007 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1943.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the first selected collection of poetry of James Howard Trott, but not the first time his work has appeared in print. He and his wife, Roseann, put together an anthology of "Christian poetry in English from Caedmon to the mid-twentieth century" under the title A Sacrifice of Praise, published in 1999. An expanded edition came out in 2006. This door-stop of a book received favorable reviews in a number of circles, and was used as a literature text in several colleges. The poet also has published several chapbooks over the years, including "The Big Lights" and "Prisoner's Pardons", and a number of the poems in this collection first appeared in various periodicals. It was Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach who said "The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens." (Aphorisms, 1880) The poems in this collection range from 27 to 48 years old. In an age where computers are obsolete in two months, and the list of "good books" changes constantly, some readers may feel they are too old to be interesting, while others may agree with the poet that time has little effect on poetry, except in the sense von E.-E. indicated. This collection is titled Immanence, and the poetry is founded on the poet's conviction that revealed throughout or within all existence is something abiding, true, and worth knowing. The poems seem to have a wide range of subjects, from brief clips of everyday existence to dramatic events and panoramas. There are "nature poems" and "religious poems." The moods swing from calm contemplation to joy to almost raging, in a few. Some are light-hearted or worshipful. To locate these poems in a tradition, one might consider the poet's own professed favorites, the metaphysical John Donne, and the gnomic Emily Dickinson. Nor can the poet escape his geographical genealogy - so that Montana's wide spaces and New England's Frosty landscapes often show up as attitudes or settings. Finally, the poet is Christian in his professed faith, his concerns, and his perspectives. He seems to treat the biblical narrative as alive and true in the same way as his own experiences or the natural world. He is not seeking "truth" as a will-o-the-wisp or a mythical opponent, but as one looks for a person who may be found, who is immanent. Immanence is the title of the collection, but the first poem is "Imminence" (sic), and by the time one has read these poems, there can be no doubt but what the poet regards the one who is imminent to be the one who is immanent, that is Jesus the Christ. In order to complete the word list, we might suggest the poems gathered here also treat him as eminent.
Автор: Trott James Howard Название: Contingency: Selected, Collected Poems, Volume Two 1989-2001 ISBN: 0986101028 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780986101021 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1995.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: During the years he was writing this collection of poems, James Howard Trott was also putting together an extensive anthology of Christian poetry in English, A Sacrifice of Praise. His first edition was published in 1997, after which, in 1999, a kind friend found a bigger venue for its publication. Trott says in the Preface to that anthology, he, like many American poets, often felt his wrote poetry in a vacuum -- a condition neither necessary nor salubrious. "It was a desire to know how the Christian poet should write and speak to his own 'tribe' in his own 'tongue' that led me to begin this collection." The labors of love which that project involved formed this poet's perspective. Nonetheless, as many of those close to him will happily agree, Trott is a peculiar person, and his poetry is peculiar to him. He cannot blame Caedmon, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, or Charles Williams for his particular fascinations - with natural, biblical, and existential anecdotes, for instance. He has reached an age where he may safely be called an eccentric, and doubtless there are eccentric dimensions to his poetry. In the end, however, this poet can usually be discovered to delight in the germ or gem of truth that is frequently found curled up in a well-worn phrase, or a phrase re-arranged, or some small bit of creation . . . or in a common experience of life. He finds delight in looking for such things. He apparently finds delight in trying to communicate what he finds to us. And, since this is the second, selected, collection of his own poetry - we may safely say, he seems to delight in writing poetry toward that purpose.
Описание: Thistle Dew is the third volume of the selected, collected poetry of James Howard Trott. The first two volumes were published as Immanence ( 1967-1988 ) and Contingency ( 1989-2001 ). Further volumes of Trott's poetry with more specific aims are: Land, Light, Wind and Water (poetry of the plains) and Conceptions and images (pro-life poems). The poet is also editor of A Sacrifice of Praise: An Anthology of Christian Poetry in English from Caedmon to the mid-Twentieth Century (2nd ed., 2006) and author of several prose works. The Poems in Thistle Dew were written from 2002 to 2007. They fit no single genre, although "random," "obscure," and "oblique," are adjectives that come to mind. The subjects are from ordinary events, natural phenomena, and memories, merging in unlikely associations as in the metaphysical poetry he admires. These verses blend faith and inquiry seasoned with friendly scepticism toward commonplace assumption and the unexamined life. At the same time many of these poems are "light". Beginning with the title we have questions about how seriously the poet takes himself, or how seriously he expects us to take him. Yet as we read his poems, we find one word or image bearing three or four different loads - hinting the title means more than at first appears. The poet continues prolific, and says more collections are likely, though he himself is mildly surprised at the fact. Thus whatever it means, Thistle Dew does not indicate the poet feels he is finished
Автор: Trott James Howard Название: A Gallows Set Upon a Hill ISBN: 0986101044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780986101045 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4599.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Although the phrase "separation of church and state" was not used until President Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802, and did not obtain its current usage until the 1940s, yet nothing in American history so subtly but thoroughly contributed to that idea as the Salem Witch troubles of 1692. Despite their huge impact on the colonies, and nation emerging from them, the story of what actually happened has been obscure, hid in mythological wrappings. Arthur Miller's The Crucible is most people's source of information about these strange events, yet Miller's primary agenda was to pen a parable about the McCarthy era. What actually went on in Salem Village in 1692 was much more complicated - and more representative of us all. Miller's chief error may have been making the trials appear the work of a few zealots. Thousands of actual court documents are available and the author has incorporated many of these. He presents the "troubles" as a drama of diverse influences affecting the whole population of New England. "The witch business" was entirely a conflict within the American church, thus this novel challenges those who regard our origins as pristine. "Lord, Lord," said they all, but this telling indicates it was at other altars many bowed. It is at other altars many sought a blessing - and it is on other altars that the unholy sacrifices were made. As the seriousness of the trials became evident, the Governor of Massachusetts sought direction from the leading ministers of Boston. These men, Puritans, Congregationalists, but also in their own minds, scientists, were unable to see their own errors or those of their disciples. Their compromising statements and actions facilitated the deaths of 23 innocent persons. In this regard, then, the story is reminiscent of Dostoevsky's "Grand Inquisitor". This novel might also be placed in the stylistic tradition of Melville's Moby Dick, only instead of the white whale, it is Old Nick himself who is being obsessively hunted. Despite the abundance of records, a few major questions about the witch trials remain unanswered. Whether the author's informed imagination has given us satisfactory answers, each reader will decide for himself. In a final postscript, Trott informs us which parts of this story are fact and which fiction.
