A Dance in Medias Res: Poems from Transcendent to Immanent
Ebook
This collection of poems moves from themes of transcendence to immanence and explores complex philosophical questions as well as relatable moments and movements in the spiritual life. Nuanced theological and philosophical topics are illuminated in fresh ways with poetic language and images. Poems about the hiddenness of God and poems about fish tacos both find a home in this collection that invites reflection and personal engagement.
"A Dance in Medias Res is a masterful work that directs the soul to the presence of God in the middle of ordinary things. Ryan Keating offers a liturgy of simplicity and power that reminds us that even the ordinary things are not merely ordinary. Like the glass of wine he often employs, these poems are best sipped and savored."
--Gregory E. Ganssle, professor of philosophy, Talbot School of Philosophy, Biola University
"I imagine Ryan Keating's poetry as a meal served at his wine and coffee bar. Seemingly humble in its ingredients, his poems mix and blend in a way that lingers long after they're first drunk. Keating's work is a table hospitably set, offering to delight and nourish through what we desire most."
--Conor Sweetman, editor, Ekstasis
"A Dance in Media Res is exactly that: a waltz, a shimmy, a pirouette, and a two-step or two, set right here in the middle of things, within life in its ordinariness and its glory, in its minutes and its eternity, in its places, spaces, rhythms. These are poems to read and ponder and read again, poems that will lift your eyes upward and still plant your feet on the ground."
--Karen Swallow Prior, author of The Evangelical Imagination
- Title: A Dance in Medias Res: Poems from Transcendent to Immanent
- Authors: Charles Taliaferro, Ryan Keating, Ruby Keating
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9798385204007, 9798385203987, 9798385203994
- Resource ID: LLS:9798385204007
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-12-05T22:31:17Z
Ryan Keating is a writer, teacher, pastor, and winemaker on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. His work can be found in publications such as Saint Katherine Review, Ekstasis Magazine, Amethyst Review, Macrina Magazine, Fathom, Fare Forward, Roi Fainéant, Funicular, and Miras Dergi, where he is a regular contributor in Turkish and English.