Climbing to God on "The Burning Ladder": Dana Gioia's Via Negativa

Christian existentialism is a stepping stool by which we can approach Dana Gioia's poems of doubt. Such poems—and here we will consider just one, "The Burning Ladder"—contain "an essentially religious irruption and claim, an agony of faith, the cry of the subjectivity towards its...

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Main Author: Hren, Joshua (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Religion and the arts
Year: 2019, Volume: 23, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 124-141
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Gioia, Dana 1950- / Religious poetry / Jacob's ladder (Biblical dream), Jacob's ladder
IxTheo Classification:CE Christian art
KDB Roman Catholic Church
Further subjects:B Catholic poetry
B Dana Gioia
B Christian existentialism
B Via Negativa
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Summary:Christian existentialism is a stepping stool by which we can approach Dana Gioia's poems of doubt. Such poems—and here we will consider just one, "The Burning Ladder"—contain "an essentially religious irruption and claim, an agony of faith, the cry of the subjectivity towards its God," and evince "a revelation of the person and of his anguish in the face of the nothingness which is non-being in the existent, the ‘crack in the existent'?"; read alongside crucial works of Christian existentialism and mysticism, Gioia's poem reveals these cracks as rungs on which the faithful lover can climb to God.
ISSN:1568-5292
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion and the arts
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02301006