Dimensions
142 x 211 x 20mm
Jesus Christ, whose teachings have been on the lips of millions for two millennia, is revealed here as one of the greatest poets of all time. Willis Barnstone explores what happened to deafen us to the poetic nature of his words.
In The Poems of Jesus Christ Barnstone unveils the essential poetry of the Gospels by taking the direct speech of Jesus from Mark, Matthew, Luke and John, and lineating and titling Jesus's words as individual poems. Jesus's poems - wisdom lyrics and narrative parables, rich with imagery, austere and poignant - carry the totality of the Gospels' message through the intensity of a single voice.
