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...ecclesiastical themes and including only working poets, does this, and so does Diane Culbertson's Invisible Light: Poems about God (2000)--although parts of the latter may be more satisfying as devotional aid. The problem with many anthologies is that if they are literature, then they are not devout--and what could be more off-putting to the literary poet than the word "inspirational"? The few books that are illuminating literature tend to be anthologies; collections of poems by Christians tend to be uneven, to descend to preachiness, or else to wrap their messages in so many layers of metaphor that they become impenetrable.
But then there is David Craig's Mary's House: New and Selected Poems. This collection draws...
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