our desperate modernity. Poetic anguish, lyrical expectation, metaphorical openness, and imaginative ambiguity are ways in which sovereign hurt and fidelity are mediated to us. This powerful mediating shocks our intellectual self-confidence and invites us to reengage life with courage, awe, and submissiveness. This commentary is about that other holy, passionate, powerful intention that plucks up and tears down, that plants and builds, that subverts and amazes.