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These poems look back over the poet's eighty years of life, including arguments with God about living with a serious birth defect. They also reflect on the possibilities presented by our own time, "the post-poetry age," in which events around us defy artistic interpretation. The theme of invincible hope runs throughout.
About the author
Philip Hefner is Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He was Editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 1988-2007. His Technology and Human Becoming (2003) is in widespread use as a college text.
Ann Pederson is Professor of Religion at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD. She is the author of The Geography of God's Incarnation (2013).
Susan Barreto is a journalist, whose work appears on the website of the Lutheran Alliance for Faith, Science and Technology (www.luthscitech.org) and The Lutheran magazine. She is also editor of InvestHedge, a monthly magazine that covers the hedge fund industry.
