Kimberly Johnson is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University. She is editor (with Jay Hopler) of Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry and author of several volumes of poetry, including Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God.

• Introduction. Eucharistic Poetics: The Word Made FleshChapter 1. "The Bodie and the Letters Both": Textual Immanence in The TempleChapter 2. Edward Taylor's "Menstruous Cloth": Structure as Seal in the Preparatory MeditationsChapter 3. Embracing the Medium: Metaphor and Resistance in John DonneChapter 4. Richard Crashaw's Indigestible PoeticsChapter 5. Immanent Textualities in a Postsacramental WorldNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"A powerful study. . . . Johnson's limpid prose as she elucidates complex poetic projects is one of the many pleasures of this book." (Studies in English Literature) "Kimberly Johnson's dual identity as scholar and poet animates this strikingly original book-not only in its limpid, lively prose but also in its resonant reappraisal of a seemingly familiar subject. Early modern devotional poetry has often been analyzed in terms of its theological and ecclesiological contexts; the real strength and purchase of Johnson's book lies in its integration of this contextual material with a searching investigation of the formal strategies of poetry as such." (Molly Murray, Columbia University) "With great energy and insight, Kimberly Johnson shows how both seventeenth-century poetry and Eucharistic theology were steeped in performative language. Made Flesh makes a real and lasting contribution to early modern studies, and to the study of poetic language in general." (Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan)

Kimberly Johnson is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University. She is editor (with Jay Hopler) of Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry and author of several volumes of poetry, including Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God.

• Introduction. Eucharistic Poetics: The Word Made FleshChapter 1. "The Bodie and the Letters Both": Textual Immanence in The TempleChapter 2. Edward Taylor's "Menstruous Cloth": Structure as Seal in the Preparatory MeditationsChapter 3. Embracing the Medium: Metaphor and Resistance in John DonneChapter 4. Richard Crashaw's Indigestible PoeticsChapter 5. Immanent Textualities in a Postsacramental WorldNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"A powerful study. . . . Johnson's limpid prose as she elucidates complex poetic projects is one of the many pleasures of this book." (Studies in English Literature) "Kimberly Johnson's dual identity as scholar and poet animates this strikingly original book-not only in its limpid, lively prose but also in its resonant reappraisal of a seemingly familiar subject. Early modern devotional poetry has often been analyzed in terms of its theological and ecclesiological contexts; the real strength and purchase of Johnson's book lies in its integration of this contextual material with a searching investigation of the formal strategies of poetry as such." (Molly Murray, Columbia University) "With great energy and insight, Kimberly Johnson shows how both seventeenth-century poetry and Eucharistic theology were steeped in performative language. Made Flesh makes a real and lasting contribution to early modern studies, and to the study of poetic language in general." (Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan)

Kimberly Johnson is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University. She is editor (with Jay Hopler) of Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry and author of several volumes of poetry, including Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God.

• Introduction. Eucharistic Poetics: The Word Made FleshChapter 1. "The Bodie and the Letters Both": Textual Immanence in The TempleChapter 2. Edward Taylor's "Menstruous Cloth": Structure as Seal in the Preparatory MeditationsChapter 3. Embracing the Medium: Metaphor and Resistance in John DonneChapter 4. Richard Crashaw's Indigestible PoeticsChapter 5. Immanent Textualities in a Postsacramental WorldNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"A powerful study. . . . Johnson's limpid prose as she elucidates complex poetic projects is one of the many pleasures of this book." (Studies in English Literature) "Kimberly Johnson's dual identity as scholar and poet animates this strikingly original book-not only in its limpid, lively prose but also in its resonant reappraisal of a seemingly familiar subject. Early modern devotional poetry has often been analyzed in terms of its theological and ecclesiological contexts; the real strength and purchase of Johnson's book lies in its integration of this contextual material with a searching investigation of the formal strategies of poetry as such." (Molly Murray, Columbia University) "With great energy and insight, Kimberly Johnson shows how both seventeenth-century poetry and Eucharistic theology were steeped in performative language. Made Flesh makes a real and lasting contribution to early modern studies, and to the study of poetic language in general." (Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan)