Trinity presents a provocative triptych of narratives: the Gospel according to a magnificently visionary Mary Magdalene; an epistolary chronicle of the evolving intimacy between Emily Dickinson and an alternately curmudgeonly and affectionate God; and finally the odyssey of a woman artist whose travels lead her to Rennes-le-Chateau, a village in the French Pyrenees said to be the final resting place of Mary Magdalene, who according to local legend married Jesus and bore his children. Is there a connection between these ...
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Trinity presents a provocative triptych of narratives: the Gospel according to a magnificently visionary Mary Magdalene; an epistolary chronicle of the evolving intimacy between Emily Dickinson and an alternately curmudgeonly and affectionate God; and finally the odyssey of a woman artist whose travels lead her to Rennes-le-Chateau, a village in the French Pyrenees said to be the final resting place of Mary Magdalene, who according to local legend married Jesus and bore his children. Is there a connection between these three stories? Common sense would seem to refute it: "And yet the odds deny / this cooled and rhymed universe." In this remarkable book, Susan Ludvigson offers a metaphysical x-ray of a cosmos in whose vastness the boundary between the sacred and profane is at best blurred, at worst illusory. It is a universe that reveals its secrets most readily to the acolytes of holy dissonance - Robert Johnson, Paganini, Mozart - those to whom the world comes diffused by pain or desire or spiritual exaltation. Most important, cooled and rhymed though it may seem, it is a universe that offers no easy explanations.
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Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author(s) Paperback Issue. Signed. A Near Fine copy in paper covers. Close to as new, but with an "autographed copy" sticker on the front cover. Briefly inscribed and signed by the author (as "Susan"), and signed in full at the title page at her printed name.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Inscribed by Author(s) First Printing. Signed. A Fine copy in black cloth of this poetry collection, in a Fine dust jacket. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author at the title page.
