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An evangeliary was a book of only those portions of the Gospel, Acts of the Apostles, and Old Testament texts that would be read at a Mass on a particular Sunday or a Holy Day. These books were extremely ornate, using rich colors, gold bindings, artful calligraphy, and highly emblematic covers. Among those emblems were, not surprisingly, drawings of the four evangelists whose Gospels were to be read, cathedrals, crosses and Marian symbols, and even portraits of princes who sponsored and donated these beautiful books. The practice of preparing these books dates back to the fourth century and reached its artistic peak in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. These holy books of the Gospels inspired this present book of poems, each of which is anchored in or alludes to a Biblical image, figure, parable, place, or trope.
A propos de l'auteur
Philip C. Kolin is the Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus and Editor Emeritus of the Southern Quarterly at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has published over forty books on Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, and African American playwrights including fifteen collections of poems. Among these are Reading God's Handwriting (Kaufmann Publishing, 2012); Departures: Poems (Negative Capability Press, 2014); Reaching Forever: Poems (Poiema Series, Cascade Books, 2019); Delta Tears: Poems (Main Street Rag, 2020); and Americorona: Poems about the Pandemic (Wipf and Stock, 2021). He has also published two books of poems about Civil Rights: Emmett Till in Different States: Poems (Third World Press, 2015) and White Terror, Black Trauma: Resistance Poems about Black History (Third World Press, 2023). And he has co-edited three anthologies of eco-poems on Katrina, the Mississippi River, and about the moon. His poems have appeared in Agape, African American Review, America Magazine, Catholic Poetry Room, Christianity and Literature, Christian Century, Ekstasis, ISLE, Amethyst, Michigan Quarterly Review, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, St. Austin Review, St. Katherine Review, Spiritus, Sojourners, U.S. Catholic, The Windhover, etc.
