What Will Soon Take Place - Poems

What Will Soon Take Place is an imaginative journey through the book of Revelation. It offers a poet's view of the prophetic, not in the sense of seeking out clues to the "end times," but a means of taking this strange, fantastic book of scripture and letting it read its way into personal lives. This is not prophecy as foretelling, but forth-telling: telling us the truths of our lives in the light of God's light. But rather than escape into some safe, heavenly realm, the poems return to our homes and meet us in the form of our neighbors, persecuted believers, and in shopping malls with vivid, edged-up language and the authority to believe and doubt at once.

About the author

Tania Runyan, an NEA fellow, is the author of A Thousand Vessels, Simple Weight, and Delicious Air, which won the Book of the Year from the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Her work has appeared in dozens of journals, including Poetry, Image, The Christian Century, Books & Culture, Mid-American Review, and the Harvard Divinity Bulletin. She lives with her family in northern Illinois.

Product details

• Authors: Tania Runyan
• Publisher: Paraclete Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781612618579
• ISBN: 978-1-61261-857-9
• No. of pages: 98
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 135 g
• Series: Paraclete Poetry; Paraclete Poetry
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama