| Poet Luci Shaw mentions her preference that poetry about the Incarnation and the Nativity stand ". . .on the edge of stark reality rather than merriment, as Christina Rossetti does in her poem 'In the Bleak Midwinter'." Shaw discusses why so much poetry about the Nativity focuses on Mary, the mother of Jesus, and why the Annunciation and the Incarnation help us to deal with the darkness not only of Christ's entry into a conflicted world, but also with our own perplexity and anguish. |
Among the collections of Luci Shaw's poetry are (pictured) Polishing the Petrosky Stone: New and Selected Poems (Harold Shaw Publishers, 1990), Writing the River: Poems (Pivon Press, 1994), The Angles of Light (Harold Shaw Publishers, 2000), and, forthcoming in March 2002 from Eerdmans, The Green Earth: Poems of Creation. |
