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  • A Radiant Resurrection

    Lent and Easter Readings from Ash Wednesday to Pentecost

    by Winn Collier, Marilyn McEntyre, John Leax, Jeanne Murray Walker, Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, Tania Runyan, Sarah Arthur, Amanda DeVos Newell, Deborah Dickerson, Matthew Dickerson, Madeleine L'Engle, Scott Cairns, John Chrysostom, Diane Glancy, Liz McFadzean, Robert Hudson, Paula Huston, Gina Ochsner, Robert Siegel, Daniel Taylor, Richard J. Foster, Lauren F. Winner, Eugene H Peterson, Luci Shaw, Ben Myers, Walter Wangerin, Jr. ...
    A Companion for Your Journey from Ash Wednesday to Pentecost"Let no one fear death, for the death of our Savior has set us free."—St. John ChrysostomLent is a pilgrimage of the soul when Christians have always commemorated the death and resurrection of Jesus with a season of reflection. Through poems, essays, and devotional readings, A Radiant Resurrection invites you into the time of reflection ... Read more

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  • Ambition

    Essays by members of The Chrysostom Society

    Edited by Luci Shaw, Jeanne Murray Walker ...
    What role should ambition play in our lives? Our culture generally buys the American Dream that yes, we can fulfill all our aspirations. But to seek personal power and fame in the competitive world of Western culture has a dark side. Ambition can be subtle and enticing, leading to great unhappiness. Questions about ambition are more urgent now than they have ever been. What is ambition, exactly, ... Read more

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  • The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible

    by Walter Wangerin Jr., Scott Cairns ...
    The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible is a volume of poems divided into three parts. The three parts are bound together by a brace of persistent and developing themes, as well as by the repetition (and the development) of language, metaphor, and imagery. Part 1 presents various characters (mostly African American) confronting death. The poems in part 2 are spoken by an unnamed narrator about his ... Read more

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  • Correspondence with My Greeks

    by Scott Cairns ...
    Citing a line from Elizabeth Bishop—“The bight is littered with old correspondences”—Scott Cairns avers: “So, also, is my mind.”Indeed, it was Bishop’s “The Bight”—encountered late in his undergraduate education—that may have first alerted Cairns to one, key, salutary fact of literary history: virtually every work written over the centuries has been to some degree a responsive text, something of ... Read more

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  • Idiot Psalms

    New Poems

    by Scott Cairns ...
    A new collection from one of our favorite poets. Fourteen “Idiot Psalms,” surrounded by dozens of other poems, make this his most challenging collection yet. “Idiot Psalm 1” O God Belovéd if obliquely so, dimly apprehended in the midst of this, the fraught obscuring fog of my insufficiently capacious ken, Ostensible Lover of our kind—while apparently aloof—allow that I might glimpse once more Your ... Read more

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    Lacunae

    New Poems

    by Scott Cairns ...
    Narrated by Scott Cairns ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    This is a book to savor slowly and return to often." — Malcolm Guite, author of Sounding the Seasons and other collectionsNew poetry from Scott Cairns on containing the uncontainableOften, when speaking of what he has called the poetic operation of language, Scott Cairns has characterized that event as our "glimpsing an indeterminate, inexhaustible enormity within a discrete space." This is the ... Read more

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  • The Stream & the Sapphire

    Selected Poems on Religious Themes

    by Denise Levertov ...
    Conceived as a convenience to those readers concerned with doubt and faith, Denise Levertov's 34 selected poems originally were published in seven separate volumes.The poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Christian faith and her oscillation from doubt to affirmation along the way. ... Read more

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  • Life Is Simpler Toward Evening

    by Father Ralph Wright, OSB ...
    Life Is Simpler Toward Evening is an inspirational, thought-provoking poetry book with poems featuring such topics as the majesty of clouds, the loneliness of being apart from a loved one, and always, the glory of God.Fr. Ralph Wright, who is a poet of great distinction, pens works that reflect his knowledge of and respect for the masters. His images are both beautiful and startling; his metaphors ... Read more

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  • Nostos and Algos

    by Manolis ...
    In Nostos and Algos a mature poet tells a simple story and yet underlying it all is a tension formed by intense, glaring, cutting, gripping and captivating images. This collection, Manolis' best so far, is subtle and unexpected, and you are left to imagine what may occur. You feel this sense of expectation in many of the poems, and this keeps them from feeling dry or overwrought. Most fascinating ... Read more

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  • Argent, Argand, Tallow and Wick

    by N. Abel Moses ...
    ARGENT, ARGAND,TALLOW & WICKByN. ABEL MOSESPoetry fl ourishes with nature along with the nuancesof light and color. It is a creation of intuition. Thepoet observes empty spaces and romanticizes theirmeaning, fascinated with their agility and freedom.It is another dimension of sight. Without perception,the object bores itself, and purpose remainsneglected. Imagination instinctively pursu... ... Read more

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  • Un-Orthodox Boy

    by Michael James ...
    A simple, heartfelt wandering of life and its happenings, "Un-Orthodox Boy" is a collection of poems about faith and the steady, sustaining love of God. As a text, "Un-Orthodox Boy" seeks, in its own way, to probe at the subtle boundaries of poetry; James' poems attempt to put on display a measured offering of human feelingthe bright visions, the deep despairs, and the spaces of the heart in ... Read more

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  • The Four Quartets

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which ... Read more

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