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Herself an accomplished poet, Jeanne Foster has written discerningly on the works of three American poets - James Wright, Anne Sexton, and Galway Kinnell - seeing them as voices no longer able to accept traditional religious language, while still affirming and groping for the sacred in a post-Holocaust world. But precisely in that context, she discloses her own poetic voice. Jeanne Foster is a poet who writes with a poetic voice on the poetry of others, illumining so many facets of human experience through the poetry of her own prose. (John Dillenberger, The Graduate Theological Union) 'The Music of Grace' is a moving and persuasive book about the search for the sacred in post-Hiroshima, post-Holocaust America, at a time when history had given poets a searing and most terrible vision of the human heart to absorb. Drawing on the work of Whitehead, Bonhoeffer oand! Bellah, Dr. Foster thinks about the convergence of philosophy, theology, and poetics in three important American poets, James Wright, Anne Sexton, and Galway Kinnell. 'Poets name the holy', Martin Heidegger said. Dr. Foster has written with compelling thoughtfulness and a poet's clarity and grace about the continuing struggle to make this so. (Robert Hass, The University of California at Berkeley) This lovely book by a gifted poet argues clearly for the religious significance of poetry in our time. It opens my ears to hear the speaking that comes to us fresh and wild from the mouths of poets. (Rebecca Parker, Starr King School for the Ministry)

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The Author: Jeanne Foster received her Ph.D. in Religion and Literature from the Graduate Theological Union. She currently is an associate professor of Religious Studies and Chair of Critical Perspectives at St. Mary's College of California. Her poetry, widely published in journals, is collected in 'A Blessing of Safe Travel', winner of the Quarterly Review of Literature' Poetry Prize.

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