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  • Correspondence with My Greeks
    Scott Cairns
    Citing a line from Elizabeth Bishop-'The bight is littered with old correspondences'-Scott Cairns avers: 'So, also, is my mind.'Indeed, it was Bishop’s 'The Bight'-encountered late in his undergraduate education-that may have first alerted Cairns to one, key, salutary fact of literary history: virtually every work written over the centuries has been to some degree a responsive ...
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  • Lacunae
    Scott Cairns
    New poetry from Scott Cairns on containing the uncontainable Often, when speaking of what he has called the poetic operation of language, Scott Cairns has characterized that event as our 'glimpsing an indeterminate, inexhaustible enormity within a discrete space.' This is the poet’s continuing fascination with lacunae, those spaces, those openings that offer more within than ap...
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  • Anaphora
    Scott Cairns
    Anaphora, the repetition of a word or phrase, draws our attention in new ways to the repeated term, and can lead us to moments of epiphany. In Eucharistic settings, anaphora also indicates the specific liturgical moment when the bread and wine are consecrated, becoming what the Eastern Church calls 'the Holy Mysteries.' Cairns’ use of anaphora invites us to see words as doing m...
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  • Short Trip to the Edge
    Scott Cairns
    Poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into his midlife crisis -- a fairly common experience among men nearing the age of fifty--while walking on the beach with his Labrador. His was not a desperate attempt to recapture youth, filled with sports cars and younger women. Instead, Cairns realized his spiritual life was advancing at a snail's pace and time was ...
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  • Ambition
    Scott Cairns
    What role should ambition play in our lives? Our culture generally buys the American Dream that yes, we can fulfill all our aspirations. But to seek personal power and fame in the competitive world of Western culture has a dark side. Ambition can be subtle and enticing, leading to great unhappiness.Questions about ambition are more urgent now than they have ever been. What is a...
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    20,63 €

  • Differential and Combinatorial Topology
    Stewart Scott Cairns
    Originally published as Volume 27 of the Princeton Mathematical series.Originally published in 1965.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them i...
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  • Slow Pilgrim
    Scott Cairns
    Scott Cairns collected his poems in a new book entitled Slow Pilgrim, which recollects his pilgrimage as a Christian in many of the poems.The book brings theology and poetry together, but In this case, the pilgrimage comes through an embrace of the Orthodox church and apophatic theology, which helps us to know God, not by comparisons or figurative language but by showing us Who...
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    33,39 €

  • Endless Life
    Scott Cairns
    From Saint Paul to Julian of Norwich, Scott Cairns has lovingly examined, pressed for the revelation, and set in verse the most memorable, beautiful sayings of the fathers and mothers of Christianity. The startling result is a fresh encounter of ancient wisdom and provocation. These poems are unified in a common claim that Love is the most compelling name of God and the most a...
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    18,01 €

  • Idiot Psalms
    Scott Cairns
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  • End of Suffering
    Scott Cairns
    "The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering, but a supernatural use for it." -Simone Weil "Like most people I, too, have been blindsided by personal grief now and again over the years. And I have an increasingly keen sense that, wherever I am, someone nearby is suffering now.  For that reason, I lately have s...
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    13,66 €

  • Love’s Immensity
    TBD / Scott Cairns
    A selection of luminous texts from early mystical fathers and mothers, whose words are considered inexhaustible, generative powers, unites in their common claim that Love is the most compelling name of God. $10,000 ad/promo. ...
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