Book of Unknowing

The Book of Unknowing meditates on John''s confrontation with the incandescent Jesus, a figure of our desire for immortality. Guiding us through the Gospel''s coming to grips with Jesus, the poet David Sten Herrstrom prefers sparking the imagination to arguing a thesis, as he explores John''s own obsessions, such as image (light), symbol (water), sign (water to wine), shapeliness (symmetry), loves...