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Librettist, essayist, translator, and poet, Scott Cairns is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at University of Missouri, where he previously directed The Center for Literary Arts and the creative writing program. He currently directs the low-residency MFA Program at Seattle Pacific University, and is assisting in the migration of that program to a more affirming host institution—Whitworth University in Spokane. His poetry and essays have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, etc., and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. He has blogged for the Religion Section of The Huffington Post. His prose books, Short Trip to the Edge (spiritual memoir) and The End of Suffering (look-length essay) appeared in multiple printings and in Greek and Romanian translations. His recent books include Correspondence with My Greeks (2024), Lacunae (2023), Anaphora (2019), Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems (2015), and Idiot Psalms (2014). He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/scott-cairns
Correspondence with My Greeks is a work at once deeply human and hauntingly transcendent, the full flowering of the poet’s lifelong devotion to the generative power of the word.
Cairns is here focused upon how an image, a word, or—in the case of the Theotokos—a womb can contain the uncontainable. As Orthodox hymnography avers, she is more spacious than the heavens. So, too, the poet suggests, in its own, modest way, the poem might give birth to more, and more, and yet more than even the poet supposes.
Anaphora, the repetition of a word or phrase, draws our attention in new ways to the repeated term, and can lead us to moments of epiphany. In Eucharistic settings, anaphora also indicates the specific liturgical moment when the bread and wine are consecrated, becoming what the Eastern Church calls “the Holy Mysteries.” Cairns’ use of anaphora invites us to see words as doing more than naming, mo
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