Transfigured

Eventually, Abraham’s choice to be transfigured will change the entire world, even as other choices keep changing it in other ways.

It begins with a long 23-bar melody on an unaccompanied solo trumpet (which returns at the symphony's close, "transfigured" by all that has intervened).

Looking at gender through a Foucauldian lens, gender is transfigured into a vehicle for the social division of power.

That the world and the flesh in his prose are both figured and transfigured.

This book takes the form of a long poem spanning eight parts, beginning with an ode ("Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge") and ending with a transfigured vision of the bridge as the unifying symbol of America ("Atlantis").