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WALKER IN THE FOG
On Mennonite Writing


"Jeff Gundy is a true descendant of the Anabaptists in that his poems and other writings are all inquiries into spiritual states and spiritual matters, especially the relationship of humans and God. Gundy is constantly engaged in an encounter with the mysteries of the spirit. This constant esistential confrontation permeates his writing. He addresses it an the inevitable anxiety with wit and wisdom."
—Dallas Wiebe, Author, Our Asian Journey as well as collections of poetry and short stories

"Jeff Gundy, poet and critic, has participated in and observed Mennonite writing from the earliest years of its emergence as an area of performance and inquiry. As an engaging and perceptive commentator in the field, he draws on creative insights that are at once personal and passionate, lively and concrete. He interacts freshly and provocatively with the spheres he encounters, musing with insight and good humor on the cultural landscape he and the writers who draw his attention inhabit."
—Hildi Froese Tiessen, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo

Gundy may be walking through the ‘fog’ of Mennonite literature and culture, but as he wanders along he ignites plenty of fireworks to enlighten our way. As in his fine poems, he bravely follows the muse of complex thinking, even if it leads to contradictions and shifting positions in the journey. Moving back and forth in his stance somewhere between John Ruth and Al Reimer, Gundy clearly prefers Gnosticism to orthodoxy, Scott Holland to H. S. Bender, and Pilgram Marpeck to Menno Simons. Although most of the essays have been published elsewhere, for various audiences, Walker in the Fog gives us a provocative view of recent tendencies in Mennonite literary culture through the singular voice of a writer who has helped create it. The book includes comments on most of the Mennonite writers who have shaped this emerging tradition. It is a remarkable contribution to the interpretation of Mennonite literature and the Mennonite church in a postmodern age."
Ervin Beck, Author, MennoFolk: Mennonite and Amish Folk Traditions


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03/17/05