To the Green Man

This collection leaps into the dangerous currents where poetry and reli-gion meet, and enlivens the lexicon of traditional American Christian belief by testing its doctrines and language against contemporary experience."Beyond the wonderful music of his lines . . ., what makes "To the Green Man "such an important and memor-able book is its enactment of a spiritual struggle to be at once at home in the world and astonished by it."--Alan ShapiroMark Jarman is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. His book "The Black Riviera "won the Poets' Prize, and "Questions for Ecclesiastes "was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.