The affirming flame

In The Affirming Flame: A Poetics of Meaning, Professor Maurice S. Friedman explores the rich tapestry of our humanness as we strive to find meaning in our experiences, even in the midst of the evil and death that threaten to put an end to it all. This struggle is vividly captured in literary and poetic works that epitomize what Friedman describes as our effort to hold the tension between affirming where we can affirm and withstanding where we must withstand. Friedman continues an old and longstanding love: a poetics of dialogue with modern literature. Such a poetics sees literature and its…