"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." "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." 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." Walker in the Fog orders:
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