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  • Love Poems for My Wife, Victoria
    George Hobson
    ''Love settled on the smile across the room and said: This is she. You shall cherish her all your years: her radiance today, her beauty in the middle passage, her loveliness in age. She is yours to keep and hold.''In Love Poems for My Wife, Victoria, George Hobson allows us into the intimate world of his God-given love for his wife. He takes us on a journey through the lifetime...
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    14,12 €

  • Faces of Memory
    George Hobson
    Read together, the three long poems in this book constitute a kind of epic. In the manner of a cubist painting, they present, through the medium of memory, the complex portrait of a man, the poet. The poems are dramatic narratives, each providing a distinctive perspective on, and poetic us of, memory. The poet is a Christian, and the poems, which range across relationships and ...
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    20,39 €

  • A Far Country Here
    George Hobson
    The six sections of this collection are like a sequence of musical variations on the theme of personal identity as it develops from childhood to death. The first section evokes the poet’s experience of being lost, of his search for identity, and of his being found by God. Section II, in a kind of echo of Section I, celebrates the successive seasons of nature and functions as a ...
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    13,43 €

  • Heights and Depths
    George Hobson
    These poems make up the verbal equivalent of a synthetic cubist painting. Many facets of reality are on display as the poems move through depths and heights of human experience. The opening section presents a harsh evocation of the turbulence and violence in our world, yet with hints of hope. ''We are God’s memories, / Preserved in his world, / Promised a future.'' The second s...
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    10,91 €

  • May Day Morning in Yerevan
    George Hobson
    The thirty poems in this collection were written over many years and are not in chronological order. The dramatic movement of the poems can be analogously compared to a day in the country that opens with playful lyrics about nature and the passing seasons, then moves on, at noon, to an evocation of divine presence in time and space. Afternoon advances, and ominous rumbles are h...
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    11,26 €

  • Imago Dei
    George Hobson
    The question ''What is human nature?'' is in vogue today. Like everything else, this concept is being deconstructed in the context of the reigning ideology of individualistic materialism. Is there a fixed human nature, or is this simply a manipulatable social construct with no objective reference? This book says: ''Yes, there is: the imago Dei: man/woman created in the image of...
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    34,54 €

  • The Parthenon
    George Hobson
    The twenty-seven poems in this collection were written over a period of many years. They vary greatly in style and length.The poems in the first two sections are lyrical. Natural beauty evokes wonder and tugs at memory. Creatures dance and sing. There is joy. The last poem in Part II, ''The Generations,'' shifts tone abruptly. There is conflict and loss. In the end, with the do...
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    15,23 €

  • The Episcopal Church, Homosexuality, and the Context of Technology
    George Hobson
    About the Contributor(s):George Hobson is an Episcopal priest and Canon to the Bishop for Theological Education in the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe. He has taught theology in seminaries and theological colleges in many developing countries, including Rwanda, Burundi, Haiti, Armenia, and Pakistan. He is author of a volume of poems and photographs, Rumours of Hope ...
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    25,31 €