The Paraclete Poetry Anthology

The Paraclete Poetry Anthology PDF Author: Mark S. Burrows
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 161261938X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Book Description
The anthology spans the first ten years of the poetry series at Paraclete Press. Included are poems by Phyllis Tickle, Scott Cairns, Paul Mariani, Anna Kamienska, Fr. John-Julian, SAID, Bonnie Thurston, Greg Miller, William Woolfitt, Rami Shapiro, Thomas Lynch, Paul Quenon, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

The Paraclete Poetry Anthology

The Paraclete Poetry Anthology PDF Author: Mark S. Burrows
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 161261938X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Book Description
The anthology spans the first ten years of the poetry series at Paraclete Press. Included are poems by Phyllis Tickle, Scott Cairns, Paul Mariani, Anna Kamienska, Fr. John-Julian, SAID, Bonnie Thurston, Greg Miller, William Woolfitt, Rami Shapiro, Thomas Lynch, Paul Quenon, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

Endless Life

Endless Life PDF Author: Scott Cairns
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 1612615449
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Book Description
First published in hardcover as Love’s Immensity, this powerful book of selections from the mystics East and West, rendered into poetry, is now available in paperback for the first time.

Compass of Affection

Compass of Affection PDF Author: Scott Cairns
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 9781557255037
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Book Description
A sacramental vision of the energy and agency of the divine in the world

What Will Soon Take Place

What Will Soon Take Place PDF Author: Tania Runyan
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 1640600779
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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Book Description
What Will Soon Take Place is an imaginative journey through the book of Revelation. It offers a poet's view of the prophetic, not in the sense of seeking out clues to the "end times," but a means of taking this strange, fantastic book of scripture and letting it read its way into personal lives.

Love's Immensity

Love's Immensity PDF Author:
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
ISBN: 9781557255259
Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A selection of luminous texts from early mystical fathers and mothers, whose words are considered inexhaustible, generative powers, unites in their common claim that Love is the most compelling name of God. $10,000 ad/promo.

Common Wealth

Common Wealth PDF Author: Marjorie Maddox
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271031913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Over the years, Pennsylvania has been graced with an abundance of writers whose work draws imaginatively on the state’s history and culture. Common Wealth sings the essence of Pennsylvania through contemporary poetry. Whether Pennsylvania is their point of origin or their destination, the featured poets ultimately find what matters: heritage, pride, work, inventiveness, struggle, faith, beauty, hope. Keystone poets Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple celebrate Pennsylvania with this wide range of new and veteran poets, including former state poet Samuel Hazo, National Book Award winner Gerald Stern, Pulitzer Prize winners Maxine Kumin, W. S. Merwin, and W. D. Snodgrass, and Reading-born master John Updike. The book’s 103 poets also include such noted authors as Diane Ackerman, Maggie Anderson, Jan Beatty, Robin Becker, Jim Daniels, Toi Derricotte, Gary Fincke, Harry Humes, Julia Kasdorf, Ed Ochester, Jay Parini, Len Roberts, Sonia Sanchez, Betsy Sholl, and Judith Vollmer. In these pages, poems sketch the landscapes and cultural terrain of the state, delving into the history, traditions, and people of Philadelphia, “Dutch” country, the coal-mining region, the Poconos, and the Lehigh Valley; the Three Rivers region; the Laurel Highlands; and Erie and the Allegheny National Forest. Theirs is a complex narrative cultivated for centuries in coal mines, kitchens, elevated trains, and hometowns, a tale that illuminates the sanctity of the commonplace—the daily chores of a Mennonite housewife, a polka dance in Coaldale, the late shift at a steel factory, the macadam of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. With its panoramic vision of Pennsylvania, its culture, and its thriving literary heritage, Common Wealth is a collection of remembrance for a state that continues to inspire countless contributions to American literature.

Heart Beats

Heart Beats PDF Author: Lisa Tomey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736562000
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Book Description
Heart Beats is an anthology of poetry about the various aspects of what makes us tick or makes a heart-beat.This is about love, life, happiness, anything that makes life more joyful or tolerable. Heart Beats is about working through and maybe even overcoming these challenges or healing. It is about what brings smiles to our faces or, at least, in our hearts.

Accompanied by Angels

Accompanied by Angels PDF Author: Luci Shaw
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802829872
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 111

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From the time she was a child in Toronto, celebrated poet Luci Shaw has sent Advent greetings to her friends and family with a carefully crafted original poem. What began as a simple childhood exercise has now become a beloved annual tradition. Though a number of these poems have appeared elsewhere, Accompanied by Angels gathers all of them for the first time into a collection for all readers for any season of the year.Beginning with the joy, terror, and wonder of the annunciation, Shaw leads the reader on a poetic journey through the birth, life, and death of Jesus the Christ, culminating in the joyous and unexpected wonder of his resurrection. Her subjects run from the mundane to the sublime, from birds in flight and waiting old men to fiery angels and storm-ravaged ridges.

There is a Future

There is a Future PDF Author: Amy Bornman
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 1640606149
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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Learning about the ancient Jewish tradition of midrash, a rabbinic form of textual interpretation that seeks and imagines answers to unanswerable questions, felt to Amy Bornman like a poetic invitation to re-engage with the Bible in a new way. There is a Future: A Year of Daily Midrash – an award-winner in the Paraclete Poetry Prize competition – grew from a yearlong project to read the Bible daily, and write daily midrashic poems in response to the readings—to honor the text by wondering about, and struggling with, it. By engaging particular passages of scripture across the Old and New Testaments directly, these poems imagine new dimensions of the text, and make vivid connections to the world as it is now and to the author’s own life—emerging at year’s end with new hope in a future that at times feels impossible, as the days pile on days and the text’s enduring questions continue to ring.

The Chance of Home

The Chance of Home PDF Author: Mark S. Burrows
Publisher: Paraclete Poetry
ISBN: 9781612616476
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Chance of Home Somewhere there must be where no one wonders whether you belong... So begins the title poem of this remarkable collection from a popular poet and scholar of mysticism. These poems remind us that "home" shapes us, not as a particular place; home is a way of being in this world, for us and for the creatures with whom we share it. It finds expression in the inner light that carries us through dark seasons and in what inspires us to risk life in the face of death. Home comes to us in the unexpected glimpses we sometimes have of a wholeness resonant enough to hold us amid fragments. Many of these poems come from a long looking at the familiar and the ordinary, a patient listening for traces of a beauty that might still save us--in the rhythms of a street musician plying his trade in a Lisbon subway, the radiance of birdsong interrupting the night's last hour, and the tolling of an old temple bell that "still sings in the silences." They ponder the resilience that lies at the heart of the natural world, as well as in our desire to thrive amid the distractions that pressure us in our lives. In an over-saturated age like ours, they invite us to linger at the edges of silence, and wonder what it means that we are not made for reason alone, but "for what song can bring of solace and delight."