Parables and Portraits

by Stephen Mitchell

Paperback, 1991

Status

Available

Call number

B > Christianity

Description

These vignettes range across the centuries to provide jewel-like portraits of some of history's most radiant men and women.

Publication

HarperCollins Publishers (1991)

User reviews

LibraryThing member jbushnell

These poems (mostly prose poems) reimagine characters from mythology, folktales, spiritual texts, Eastern teachings, plus a few more contemporary figures (Spinoza, Picasso, Freud). There's a kind of "California" quality to much of this, and the project of rethinking archetypal figures has been done

elsewhere, but the book's sincerity and clarity recommend it.

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