Kenosis by Scott Cairns - Poem for Palm Sunday, Year A
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for Palm Sunday, Year A can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Philippians 2:5-11
Kenosis
Scott Cairns
SNIPPET:
Even now, as prelude to
—as preparation
for—what is yet to come,
the pilgrim must descend
beneath the din and clatter
of the mind,
…
Scott Cairns (b. 1954) is an American poet, memoirist, librettist, and essayist. He is the author of ten collections of poetry, one collection of translations of Christian mystics, a spiritual memoir, amongst others. Cairns's poems have appeared in journals including The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Image, and Poetry, and have been anthologized in Upholding Mystery (Oxford UP, 1996), Best Spiritual Writing (Harper Collins, 1998 and 2000), and Best American Spiritual Writing (Houghton Mifflin, 2004, 2005, and 2006).(via Wikipedia).