Bøker av Andrew Jantz

A collection of short stories by Andrew Jantz that illuminate the lives of ordinary people struggling with difficulties and crisis in their lives. Issues of faith and love, tragedy and despair are brought forth with clarity and compassion. The stories are plainspoken, and the characters are portrayed with immediacy as they face choices and circumstances-good and bad-which give shape to their lives. These stories will strike a chord with anyone who wonders what the private lives of others look like when the curtains are drawn back. Above all, this book is a testament to the human spirit.

A powerful poetic sequence confessing the fictional life of a lost, wounded soul in a decaying New England town. Jantz does not shy away from meeting the big questions head-on: the meaning of life, of love, of God's absence, of death. It is at once a sober embrace of reality and a plaintive cry for redemption. Jantz weaves these themes into an existential tapestry that is rich in imagery and meaning, yet direct and highly accessible. It is a profound artistic achievement not to be missed. Jantz's 'Wasteland' is Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and he masterfully describes the decay of an old mill-town and a profoundly alienated man, with an unflinching, gimlet eye. This lyrical narrative has the depth of a novella, and the heightened language and insight of a brilliant poem. - Doug Holder, Editor, Ibbetson Street Exquisitely lyric, these poems are an extraordinary blend of powerful emotion and intellectual reflection. Unlike most depictions of the struggle to create a new self, the key here is the philosophy of Sartre, whose ideas are sometimes invoked directly but never prosaically. Especially wonderful is the poet's reflections on Nothingness, interweaving the term's significations of oblivion and meaninglessness with Sartre's concept as an essential factor of consciousness as self-creating and world-revealing. Philosophy has been made poetry. A book that enlightens at first reading but demands many more. - Dr. Hazel E. Barnes, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Colorado; translator of Sartre's Being and Nothingness and Search for a Method, and author of The Literature of Possibility, and An Existentialist Ethics.