Cars: A Romantic Manifesto

by Kent Gramm

Overview

This spiritual manifesto was written for any reader seeking romantic fulfillment, environmental salvation, enlightenment, and a decent automobile. Journey to Shangri-La, Goethe's Germany, the Sweden of Willie Volvo and his Princess, the Poet's Path along the picturesque Neckar River, and the America of apple pie and Chevrolet. If all of civilization is on a mad, Faustian quest for material happiness, how can we find sanity, redemption, true love, and a good car?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666703368
Publisher:	Resource Publications
Publication date:	07/09/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	254
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Kent Gramm is the author of November, Somebody’s Darling, Psalms for Skeptics, Psalms for the Poor, The Prayer of Jesus, Sharpsburg, Clare, and Gettysburg: The Living and the Dead (with photographer Chris Heisey). He teaches Civil War-era studies and automotive theory at Gettysburg College.

Kent Gramm is the author of fifteen books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including Nature’s Bible: The Old Testament through the Eyes of Creation; November: Lincoln’s Elegy at Gettysburg; Bitterroot: An American Epic; Cars: A Romantic Manifesto; The Prayer of Jesus: A Reading of the Lord’s Prayer; Somebody’s Darling: Essays on the Civil War; Sharpsburg: A Civil War Narrative; Psalms for Skeptics; Psalms for the Poor; and Public Poems. Visit www.kentgramm.com for descriptions and more information.

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“Readers of this book may ask as I did, What have we here? Poetry or protest? Wisdom or

wackiness? Parody or preaching? Automotive analysis or autobiographical admission? The

answer: both none and all of the above in a seething admixture of erudition, despair,

hopefulness, realism, Romanticism, contempt, and humility. And yet somehow also a

foundational affirmation of the redemptive potential of love. ‘You were innocent until you read this’ was a line that sticks with me. Which makes the reader guilty of . . . what? I had to read the

book to find out. I am truly glad I did.”

—Robert W. Yarbrough, Professor of New Testament, Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri

Editorial Reviews

Readers of this book may ask as I did, What have we here? Poetry or protest? Wisdom or

wackiness? Parody or preaching? Automotive analysis or autobiographical admission? The

answer: both none and all of the above in a seething admixture of erudition, despair,

hopefulness, realism, Romanticism, contempt, and humility. And yet somehow also a

foundational affirmation of the redemptive potential of love. ‘You were innocent until you read this’ was a line that sticks with me. Which makes the reader guilty of . . . what? I had to read the

book to find out. I am truly glad I did.”

—Robert W. Yarbrough, Professor of New Testament, Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri

From the Publisher