Contingency : Oak and Yew Press : 9780986101021 : 0986101028 : 20 Apr 2015 : During the years he was writing this collection of poems, James Howard Trott was also putting together an extensive anthology of Christian poetry in English, A Sacrifice of Praise. His first edition was published in 1997, after which, in 1999, a kind friend found a bigger venue for its publication. Trott says in the Preface to that anthology, he, like many American poets, often felt his wrote poetry in a vacuum -- a condition neither necessary nor salubrious. "It was a desire to know how the Christian poet should write and speak to his own 'tribe' in his own 'tongue' that led me to begin this collection". The labors of love which that project involved formed this poet's perspective. Nonetheless, as many of those close to him will happily agree, Trott is a peculiar person, and his poetry is peculiar to him. He cannot blame Caedmon, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, or Charles Williams for his particular fascinations