Timely Issues

by Elizabeth Jennings

In her long experimental poem Concerning History from her 1998 collection Praises, Elizabeth Jennings asks, Does history tell love-stories?. The answer as she, like her mentor Robert Graves, knows is yes, if the poet listens carefully, out of crisis, out of innocence and out of religious faith emerge love stories. Like Rilke, her task is to praise, as a lover praises, the things made, the makers and the Maker.

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2001

Reviews

[Kosta Rymer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Most poems in this collection are painfully average, but there are some gems among them, though few. “Country Sounds,” “Girl at Prayer,” and “Assurance Beyond Midnight” are the only stand-outs.