John in the Company of Poets: The Gospel in Literary Imagination - Paperbackby Thomas Gardner (Author) Thomas Gardner artistically describes Jesus "the Word made flesh" as a poem penned by God for the world, and John author of the Fourth Gospel as the poem's interpreter. John's structural patterns, repetitions, and narrative interventions invite readers to experience for themselves the beauty of the divine poem. John in the Company of Poets deepens this invitation by re imagining the biblical text through the eyes of such