Poets play with the sound of words perhaps more than other writers. Who can read “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” (by Gerard Manley Hopkins) and think otherwise? How about the incantatory rhymes of Poe’s “The Raven”? —“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon theContinueContinue reading “The Wheels in the Wheels”
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What the Seven Thunders Said
Art by Nina Paley / apocalypseanimated.com Revelation, the final book of the Bible, is a series of visions recorded by John (either John the Apostle or John the Elder, scholars don’t agree…but do they ever?). Nearly every image in these visions comes from the Old Testament. That said, the images are combined in surprising waysContinueContinue reading “What the Seven Thunders Said”
