To the House of the Sun
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (604 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0979870747 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 628 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
S. Simply stated, To The House of the Sun is a literary phenomena on a scale with the Iliad or the Odyssey. We walk with Orpheus, with Odysseus, with Dante in the Inferno of soul-immolating tragedy, in the immortal search for spiritual meaning in a world that often drifts toward nightmare--yet the poetry, the paradoxical seal of immortality redeems us all. A key distinction of this fat and fascinating paperback is that its final 260 pages are all appendices and footnotes in which Miller obsessively documents the sources and inspirations he drew upon for ideas, images
To the House of the Sun, a long narrative poem in thirty-three books, culminates with a young man's experience of illumination in the summer of 1865, ascending into the air above California. After this, he walks West, shedding any identity he may have once had--as an immigrant Irishman, a Catholic, a Southerner, a son--so that what began as an epic of history has slowly become something like a new sutra or gospel, the hagiography of some strange man who appears in the American West teaching, healing, and even raising the dead.More than a decade in the writing, To the House of the Sun is consciously dependent upon the sacred literature and poetry our own culture is heir to, and following the poem is a generous selection of notes detailing these borrowings, which itself co
In the House Great Read! No illustrations, so you have to use your imagination. Also as somewhat of a historical expert, I find the lack of Zombies disturbing, which again, you have to use your imagination. I don't really understand this writer's Zombie prejudice, Its' 2016! #zombielivesmatter
Tim Miller writes about religion, poetry and history at wordandsilence. He began the poem in 2002, while working as a caretaker for the elderly in Northeast Ohio, and since then has lived in Georgia, Southern California, Brooklyn, and elsewhere. . Delving for twelve years into the world's great trove of religious literature, folklore, and history was his Harvard, his MFA. His fiction and short poe