Literary Nonfiction. Spiritual improvisations, radiant acts of attention: echoing Thoreau'sWalden, the meditations of Guy Davenport, and Kenny Moore's groundbreaking articles forSports Illustrated, Th
Thomas Gardner artistically describes Jesus--"the Word made flesh"--as a poem penned by God for the world, and John--author of the Fourth Gospel--as the poem's interpreter. John's structural patterns,