Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist. A skeleton is discovered in a sea captain's cabin, writing on a slate. What did it write? And, what should the captain do? In a conversation spanning half hour segments numbering seven on the same number of separate days this religion writer talked with the Reverend Doctor Lawrence Michael Cameron, OAC.
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That is the Reverend Doctor's business and has been for 25 years as a pastoral counselor. We talked by phone to his home in Indiana from mine in Mill Valley, California. An advocate for the mentally ill, Doctor C, as he is affectionately known, bent his comments to let the listener know of his favorable sense of hope for mentally ill people and their treatment. For some time I have thought about and even meditated on the work of poetry recent to the body of this interview series, as created by the excellent Roman Catholic Christian poet Philip Kolin, of Mississippi, USA.
His recent collection is titled "Reading God's Handwriting: Poems," as published by Kaufmann Publishing. We talked by phone between my home in Mill Valley, California and his home in Missouri; the interview follows. Though Scott Cairns wrote his answers after a background conversation, there was one follow-up to his answers to the questions.
That was asked in writing by email and answered in writing by email.
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That is, God is unknowable, and any language we use to describe God is centered more around what God is not than what God is. There are threads of this apophatic spirituality throughout. His poems will opten wind their way through a desire to know or see God, only to have God appear, but not as anything concrete or tangible. No solid rock or eagle's wings here; God is a shimmering fog, at most. Hesychasterion provides one example of this dynamic. The title refers to a tradition of prayer inspired by Jesus's injunction to go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.
The idea is to divorce oneself from any outside stimuli or input from the five senses. After several lines of settling in to a time of prayer, Cairns finds what he's been seeking Should I make my way at last to the hollow of my heart, I hope as well to apprehend a stilling of the crowd, within which stillness I might dare approach the cloud. Cairns employs a number of descriptive names for God that are in turns incisive and winsome.
Many of these names pepper his idiot psalms, which are spoken through the voice of a narrator, Isaak, and appear in every section of the book. There is a bemusement to Cairns's invocations of this God of many names. He seems to waver between wanting an authentic, full-on encounter with his Grea mad Architect and holding back from it - or at least, knowing that such encounters are fleeting and provisional in this life.
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The word mitigate lands like a thud, but with a wry twinkle. It's too much to hope that God might vanish the ache, but perhaps God can make it a little better. And Slow Boat to Byzantium suggests that the practice of prayer does not magically conjure up an experience of God; the discipline is an end in itself: If any of this frank, confusing clatter has distracted you from prayer, the odds are good the whole endeavor is already somewhat compromised.
These ups and downs will not abate, so you will surely find in time a practice less dependent on good fortune. Cairns's poetry is very sensual and surprisingly earthy. Though perhaps it should be no surprise. Cairns has shared in interviews that he is drawn to Orthodox worship because of its sensual, tactile elements.
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It's very bodily present - one brings himself or herself fully to the space. The air is filled with incense; the iconography is everywhere; our bodies kneel, prostrate.
We kiss each other. Nowhere is this tactile element more in evidence than in the latter sections of the book. Section III, My Byzantium, blends exquisite travel writing with spiritual pilgrimage as Cairns takes us into the chaos of a Thessalonian agora marketplace and up the holy mountain with the monks. I could smell the coffee brewing Even with a spirit of slow reading and a dictionary nearby, some of Cairns's poems were simply beyond me.
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Cairns's poetry is smart and intriguing enough that I was tempted to do so - to parse each line, diagram each sentence. But ultimately it was more satisfying to pursue Cairns's words the way he pursues the Holy One, the Inexhaustible, the Forever Forgiving Forgone sans conclusion - with openness and curiosity, willing to receive whatever encounter with the Holy might result. Toon meer Toon minder. Lees de eerste pagina's.
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