Liddy Barlow

Jan 4, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Benjamin Dueholm |Amy Becker |Liddy Barlow |Robert Hirschfield

Mother, why is Father dying on the cross in our cornfield? Read our latest issue or browse back issues. the image startles the way many of Raymond Roseliep’s images startle. His association between the figure and the cornfield underscores Ezra Pound’s poetic dictum, “Make it new.” As dark and as stark as that image is, a Roseliep haiku can also be unapologetically whimsical:hole in my sock letting spring inRoseliep was born in Farley, Iowa, in 1917 and died in 1983.