A Blessed Big Day
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A Blessed Big Day brings together more
than fifty years of Ralph Brown's
Christmas poems. These poems arise
from a variety of places, cultures and
circumstances. But while the subject
matter of these verses spans the globe
from villages of southern Pakistan to
the woods of Royalston, Massachusetts,
and ranges across an emotional scale
from exhilaration to deep pain, they all
reflect the transcendent joy, faith and
reverence of an author who knows Jesus
as God Incarnate, and who can write
with confidence:
If Christmas means what one can do
Or is shaped by good health or clime
Then the essence of Christmas remains
With man and the fortunes of time.
These poems also testify to an American
poetic tradition, a tradition fading but
still alive, which treats poetry not just
as the property of literary professionals,
but also as an expression of the every
day lives, thought and experience of
ordinary people. This is the tradition
reflected in Best Loved Poems of
the American People, and like that
anthology, Ralph Brown's poems,
often written hastily in the midst of the
demands of work and circumstances,
encourage us to keep alive the work of
the everyday "rhymester.
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