Thick and Dazzling Darkness Students & student organisations Inspired by the penguins and

Inspired by the penguins and fuelled by Darjeeling tea and finger sandwiches

a striking stallion

There are forests to explore

Rena defied all of society's sexual norms

Thick and Dazzling Darkness Students & student organisations Inspired by the penguins andHow do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O'Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and importance of religious poetry in twentieth and twenty first century American literature. He traces a poetic genealogy that begins with Whitman and Dickinson