The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey: Poems Volume 45 - Paperback

by Alex Mouw (Author)

The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey confronts religious devotion as something you grasp and something that seizes you. Rooted in the landscape of West Michigan, these poems seek traces of the divine with keen attention to the natural world, science, and personal history. Yet amid ordinary lives and crises of faith, revelation descends unexpectedly, talons extended in frightful welcome. This book offers readers the taste of belief, its texture, and the way its convicted sight both distorts and illuminates. By turns meditative, ecstatic, and snarky, Alex Mouw's poems capture the sermons and lamentations, the preachers and seekers, the politics and piety of midwestern evangelical Christianity.

Author Biography

ALEX MOUW is an assistant professor of English at Samford University. His poetry and scholarship appear in The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, Twentieth-Century Literature, and other venues.