S P I R I T B O O K W O R D - an inquiry into literature and spirituality
J.S. Porter
Born in Belfast and educated in Canada, J.S. Porter is a passionate and omnivorous reader. An accomplished poet, critic and teacher, his poems, articles, reviews and essays have appeared in Grail, The Antigonish Review, Quarry, Brick, The Hamilton Spectator, The Ottawa Citizen, The National Post, The
Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada. He currently teaches literature at Mohawk College in Hamilton. This is his official website.
...from an e-mail 18/05/08 from Susan McCaslin, Vancouver poet & Merton scholar:
“I just finished a delightful reading experience of Hermit and the Heart. This is your best book ever, so lucid, and intimate and poetic…I didn’t have a pen on hand or I would have been underlining and highlighting in yellow marker every few sentences…I love the way you talk about Merton creating a sense that he is us and we are him. That;s how his voice seems to me too…I also like the way you say his work is grounded in the body.”
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