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  • April 4, 2017

    The Luminous Words of Rilke

    More than a century has passed since Rainer Maria Rilke wrote the poems in our volume, Prayers of a Young Poet. Rilke’s poetry chronicles a search for the divine: in the ordinary details of the everyday and the mystery of our inner life, … Continue reading
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  • The Heart-Work of Poems
    April 18, 2016

    The Heart-Work of Poems

    by Mark S. Burrows In her marvelous recent collection of essays on poetry, Jane Hirshfield suggests that “the desire of monks and mystics is not unlike that of artists: to perceive the extraordinary in the ordinary by changing not the … Continue reading
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