To cross these shores, to scale these rocks.To tread the spheres and touch Who is. My joy. INTRODUCING... A New Poet for an Ancient Faith "...You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wonder why you wasted all those weekends collecting Pogs..." ~ a renowned critic.  Anthony Paul Mator [email protected] Every age has its poet. We haven't found ours yet. But in the meanwhile, you can purchase your copy of my new book, Psalm Zero. That is, if you've got the testosterone to handle these too-hot-for-prime-time verses. Poetry isn't just for high school pop quizzes and Valentine's Day cards. It's for a flesh and blood, tooth and claw, sweat and tears world where nobility spars with barbarism and where men must be men. (From the book introduction) If asked to recommend a psalmist for the contemporary reader, I must point my finger squarely at the writings of King David. Thousands of years have not eroded the human nature of humanity, or the unchangeableness of God. History is relevant because, with or without our iPods, we still fear the same terrors, rejoice in the same hopes, and exist in the same reality. Even so, the world has changed. What the psalmist saw dimly -- the resurrection of Christ -- has come to pass. What the ancients never imagined -- computers, airport metal detectors, Britney Spears -- we embrace as defining symbols of a fragmented age. Hell�s poets write new verses; the darkest demons weave the same lie to a different meter. Heaven�s poets also write, and if they want to be read by today�s generation, they might do well to be more than scribal copyists of ancient, difficult texts that the public has (unfairly) deemed irrelevant. We must write as the ancient church, but we must also write as the new church. We are not modernists. We are not post-modernists. We are Christians. Anthony Paul Mator is a news correspondent for WORLD Magazine, unaccomplished musician, desktop theologian, insurrectionist, and future prime minister of the United Federation of Planets. To purchase Psalm Zero, go HERE. |