Poetry and prayer

This second ‘intersectional chapter’ takes up a Cixous reading practice, of intensive listening to a text, of allowing a path into the text to unfold. Here we are led to an intersection of poetry and prayer, a kinship unveiled in the writings of the Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner, of Cixous, and of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, all of whom were concerned and knowledgeable about interior depths, where Rahner believed that kinship is revealed.