Things of the Hidden God
Journey to the Holy Mountain
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
300 Pages, 5.50 x 8.50 x 0.60 in
- Paperback
- 9781498292528
- Published: March 2016
$38.00 / £34.00 / AU$52.00
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Christopher Merrill has published six collections of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; many edited volumes and books of translations; and five works of nonfiction. His latest prose book, The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War, chronicles travels in Malaysia, China and Mongolia, and the Middle East. His writings have been translated into nearly forty languages; his journalism appears widely; his honors include a Chevalier from the French government in the Order of Arts and Letters. As director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Merrill has conducted cultural diplomacy missions to more than fifty countries. He serves on the US National Commission for UNESCO, and in April 2012 President Obama appointed him to the National Council on the Humanities.
"A beautifully realized record of an ancient impulse--the pilgrimage toward the Holy--that has never seemed more necessary. Christopher Merrill, in this book, is a reliable guide to esoteric terrain, a shrewd reader of history and literature, and an eloquent artist."
-James Carroll. Author of Constantine's Sword and Crusade
"Mount Athos is a spectacular and spellbinding place, mysterious and magnetic, dedicated to its own secrets. Merrill's intimately conceived and beautifully told tribute to his deepening relation to the lure of Athos and its traditions, and the discoveries to which it has led him, is a rich and revealing personal chronicle."
-W. S. Merwin