3. Ingmar Bergman Postcard

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Our Prayers Are Answered xi
5. I. Beach Glass
6. Introduction 1
7. Theologia
8. 1. Beyond Theology the Soul 5
9. 2. Open Any Door 7
10. 3. Knowledge 9
11. 4. More or Less 10
12. 5. Lacrimae Rerum 12
13. 6. In Consequence 13
14. 7. Paradise Null 15
15. 8. Kierkegaard’s Instant 17
16. 9. Dark Night: Newport, 4:00 a.m. 19
17. 10. Cloudless 20
18. II. Historical Perspective
19. Introduction 21
20. Historical Perspective 23
21. Creation 25
22. Early Poem upon my Father’s Birthday Sixteen Years after His Death 27
23. Graham Greene 28
24. A Doll’s House 30
25. Somewhere Behind the Blank Screens 31
26. A So-Called Respite 32
27. Canticle of Gilgamesh Returned from Heaven 34
28. Before Genesis 35
29. Implicit 38
30. The Last Bus 40
31. Home on the Range; or, Mortality and the Persistent Failure to Arrive 42
32. Ovid Still 43
33. God Bless the Child 45
34. III. Roads, Crossings & Returns
35. Introduction 47
36. Saint Theresa Returns 49
37. The End of Heracleitus 51
38. Seasons of Love and Water 52
39. Simple Operation 54
40. Glimpsed in Passing 56
41. Between Shores
42. 1. Another Crossing 57
43. 2. To Get Anywhere 59
44. 3. Ingmar Bergman Postcard 60
45. 4. Dante’s Crossing 61
46. 5. Message 63
47. 6. Underway 65
48. Turnpike and Flow 66
49. Wordsworth 68
50. The Better Part of Valor 70
51. It’s Difficult to Mean One’s Words 72
52. End 73
53. IV. Exaltations
54. Introduction 75
55. As He Is 77
56. Winter Companion 79
57. Cloud of Unknowing 81
58. The Giant Causes the Apocalypse 82
59. Surveillance 83
60. The Biographical Imperative
61. 1. When We Were Very Young 84
62. 2. Cloves 86
63. 3. Spring and All 88
64. 4. Night Fishing 90
65. 5. The Visit 92
66. 6. To the Undine Child 94
67. Set Free of the Probable 95
68. A Trillium for James Wright on the Anniversary of His Passing 96
69. Two Solitudes 98
70. Homecoming 100
71. Acknowledgments 103
72. About the Author 105
73. Also by Christopher Howell 106