Tag: The Devotional Poems

  • The Devotional Poems, by Joe Hall

    The Devotional Poems, by Joe Hall

    In his 1961 film Through a Glass Darkly, Ingmar Bergman famously portrayed a god in the form of a spider. The woman to whom the god appears, a young schizophrenic named Karin, initially reacts to the sight of the spider with horror—and then revulsion. After being administered a sedative, she calms and says, “I was…