Aslan is on the move! Internationally acclaimed artist Robert Cording has created a series of full–color paintings that celebrate C.S. Lewis’s fantasy world and the great lion who rules over it. Readers explore the Land of Narnia with Cording and a gathering of well–known writers, Lewis experts, children, and others whose lives have been touched by these magnificent stories. This ideal gift for new and longtime fans of Narnia also includes: <ul>
<li>letters from Lewis to readers that provide insight into the author’s message</li> <li>an engaging perspective from Douglas Gresham, C.S. Lewis’s stepson</li> <li>original writings on “what Narnia means to me”</li> </ul>
It makes me, I think, more humble than proud to know that Aslan has allowed me to be the means of making Him more real to you.—C.S. Lewis in a letter to a reader.

The Lion and the Land of Narnia: Our Adventures in Aslan's World

Religion & Spirituality

Cording, Robert

Christian Books & Bibles

Harvest House Publishers

Life-List

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Ohio State Univ Pr

Poetry. "In one of the inscriptions to Robert Cording's robust and affecting second collection, St. Paul asserts that 'if we hope for what we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.' WHAT BILNDS US TO THIS WORLD is a sustained chronicle of such hope and such patience (in all the etymological resonances of that word). Cording's fondest wishes extend not only to the tangible but to the invisible; moreover - unlike many a contemporary poet's - they supersede the bounds of hungry ego. His most moving testimony is presented on behalf of others, most notably family and friends. Here is a man who still believes in serial immortality, the notion that one's best influences survive in the characters of loved ones, which is also to say, in Cording's case, in all hid strong poems. Yet there is no smugness or sanctimony in this writer's posture: he is sharp and self-skeptical enough to put his sincerest convictions on permanent trial, one day's assurance ceding to the awkwardness of the next. Early on, Cording confesses, 'I'm almost ashamed of my delight.' We can be grateful for that almost, because WHAT BINDS US TO THIS WORLD suggests the availability of delight, a rarely made case in our time, while its modesty demands of the author that he everywhere question delight's grounds. The result is a collection charged - to use the apt word - with grace" -Sydney Lea

What Binds Us To This World

Copper Beech Press

The title poem takes its name from a passage by Simone Weil, “We must not weep so that we may not be comforted.” But in this and other poems, Robert Cording offers a more hopeful vision of our ability to find consolation in the world we inhabit―a world endowed will offer endless spiritual possibilities, both in nature and within ourselves.

Against Consolation

CavanKerry Press

Common Life looks at the various meanings of common, especially its senses of familiar and widely known; belong or relating to the community at large; and its twinned notions of simple and rudimentary and vulgar and profane. The book's perspective is religious, and is grounded in the epigraph from the Psalms: "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him." The "waiting" that is required has to do with three things: first, our desire, as Charles Wright puts it, "to believe in belief" rather than believe; secondly, the need for a setting aside of the self, an abandonment of "every attempt to make something of oneself, even...a righteous person" in the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and thirdly, the "waiting" must be as Eliot wrote in the Four Quartets a waiting "without hope for hope would be hope of the wrong thing." If we learn to wait in these ways, the final section of the book suggests that we have the chance of opening ourselves to all that is graceful within life's common bounds.

Common Life (Notable Voices)

A Word in My Mouth (Poiema Poetry)

Wipf and Stock

Forty years as a poet has kept Robert Cording looking at the details of everyday experience. That long labor has brought him face-to-face with the inescapable complexity of a world that is full of suffering and injustice. And grace. This journey has convinced him that, as Czeslaw Milosz puts it, "poetry embodies the double life of our common human circumstance as beings in between the dust that we are and the divinity to which we would aspire." Cording's task has therefore been to evoke what he calls "the primordial intuitions of Christianity": that we live in a world we did not create; that God's immanent presence is capable of breaking in on us at every moment; that most of the time we cannot "taste and see" that presence because we live in a world of mirrors; that only by attention can we live in the world but outside of our existing conceptions of it. The reflections in Finding the World's Fullness--comprising not only thoughts on metaphor but also close readings of poets ancient and modern, including George Herbert, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Bishop, and Stanley Kunitz--suggest that, as Richard Wilbur puts it, "The world's fullness is not made but found."

Finding the World's Fullness: On Poetry, Metaphor, and Mystery

History & Criticism

Slant

These poems--selected from the past three decades--are firmly rooted in what Richard Wilbur called the "hunks and colors of the world" They faithfully try to take into account a world we did not make and, at the same time, record the terrifying and painful contradictions of human experience. And finally, they try to do so while remaining open to the intrinsic joy of being. These are poems rooted in the belief that words can invoke those presences which bring us back, again and again, to the fundamental experience of being: that there is something rather than nothing. The poems in A Word In My Mouth embody, as Czeslaw Milosz puts it, "the double life of our common human circumstance as beings in between the dust that we are and the divinity to which we would aspire"

A Word in My Mouth: Selected Spiritual Poems (The Poiema Poetry Series)

Cascade Books

Finding the World's Fullness

Forty years as a poet has kept Robert Cording looking at the details of everyday experience. That long labor has brought him face-to-face with the inescapable complexity of a world that is full of suffering and injustice. And grace. This journey has convinced him that, as Czeslaw Milosz puts it, ""poetry embodies the double life of our common human circumstance as beings in between the dust that we are and the divinity to which we would aspire."" Cording's task has therefore been to evoke what he calls ""the primordial intuitions of Christianity"" that we live in a world we did not create; that God's immanent presence is capable of breaking in on us at every moment; that most of the time we cannot ""taste and see"" that presence because we live in a world of mirrors; that only by attention can we live in the world but outside of our existing conceptions of it. The reflections in Finding the World's Fullness--comprising not only thoughts on metaphor but also close readings of poets ancient and modern, including George Herbert, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Bishop, and Stanley Kunitz--suggest that, as Richard Wilbur puts it, ""The world's fullness is not made but found.""

Essays & Correspondence

Slant Books

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The Lion and the Land of Narnia: Our Adventures in Aslan's World

Life-List

Life-List

What Binds Us To This World

Against Consolation

Common Life (Notable Voices)

A Word in My Mouth (Poiema Poetry)

Finding the World's Fullness: On Poetry, Metaphor, and Mystery

A Word in My Mouth: Selected Spiritual Poems (The Poiema Poetry Series)

Finding the World's Fullness