The Shapes Are Real: Poems on the Sculptures of Liviu Mocan - Hardcover

by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner (Author), Liviu Mocan (Photographer), Philip Yancey (Introduction by)

The Shapes Are Real is a collection of thirty-three poems by the Christian poet, Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner, occasioned by thirty-three of the dramatic sculptures of the Romanian Christian sculptor, Liviu Mocan. Photos of the sculptures are presented along with the poems inspired by them. The Shapes Are Real can be read as a series of devotional poems presented in the pages of an art book in which poems and sculptures inform each other.

Author Biography

Jill Peláez Baumgaertner is Professor of English Emerita at Wheaton College, Illinois, where she also served as Dean of Humanities and Theological Studies. She is the author of six other books of poetry, a study of Flannery O'Connor, and is the editor of two poetry anthologies. She also serves as poetry editor of The Christian Century.