S P I R I T B O O K W O R D - an inquiry into literature and spirituality
J.S. Porter
Born in Belfast and educated in Canada, J.S. Porter is a passionate and omnivorous reader. An accomplished poet, critic and teacher, his poems, articles, reviews and essays have appeared in Grail, The Antigonish Review, Quarry, Brick, The Hamilton Spectator, The Ottawa Citizen, The National Post, The
Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada. He currently teaches literature at Mohawk College in Hamilton. This is his official website.
...from Lynn R. Szabo's review in Cistercian Studies Quarterly Vol 44.3, 2009, pp. 380-383
“As raconteur par excellence, Porter alerts us to the gyre of Merton’s reach….
“In Ten chapters, Porter surveys Merton’s life and work as though he were in a light plane preparing maneuver for an air show. His approach is at times dangerous, daring, and surprising; at others, it is serious and salient. His trenchant wit and appropriately irreverent humor add flourishes of entertainment that make this collection a pleasurable and engaging, as well as satisfying brief assessment of Merton’s corpus of poetry, journals, letters, and essays—his life as a public intellectual and professed religious.”
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