Books

Paraclete Press books explore the richness and depth of what it means to be a Christian. While Benedictine spirituality is at the heart of what we do, our books reflect the Christian experience across many cultures, time periods, and houses of worship.

 

The Language of the Birds

The Language of the Birds

Amy Nemecek

$21.00

According to legend, the language of the birds was a mystical language God used to talk with Adam and Eve when he walked with them in the garden of...

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$21.00
Holy Land

Holy Land

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

$21.00

“Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." —Exodus 3:5“The Holy Land is everywhere.” —Black ElkT...

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$21.00
Journey to the Morning Light

Journey to the Morning Light

Catherine de Vinck

$21.00

A posthumous collection of poems on the beauty of the seasons, creation, life and death, from beloved poet Catherine de Vinck.In the words of the F...

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$21.00
From Shade to Shine

From Shade to Shine

Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

$20.00

This collection of poems begins in the growing darkness of November, stretches through Advent and the seasons leading to Easter and to Pentecost, a...

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$20.00
Begin with a Question

Begin with a Question

Marjorie Maddox

$20.00

Begin with a Question explores how the life of faith is a continuous voyage, launched anew each bright day of the spirit or dark night of the soul....

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$20.00
Raising the Sparks

Raising the Sparks

Jennifer Wallace

$19.00

Raising the Sparks, Jennifer Wallace’s sixth poetry collection, is inspired by the alignment of Christian and Judaic traditions. The idea of raisin...

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$19.00
How Does He Love Me?

How Does He Love Me?

Brad Lussier

$10.00

If you love words well-chosen, the enticing turn of a phrase, and the rhythm of ten artful beats to a line, you will enjoy this collection of sonne...

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$10.00
To Shatter Glass

To Shatter Glass

Sister Sharon Hunter CJ

$24.00

Poems of pain and forgiveness, for those who struggle to find healing from a childhood marked by addictionTo Shatter Glass is essentially a memoir ...

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$24.00
Flying Yellow

Flying Yellow

Suzanne Underwood Rhodes

$19.00

The poems in Flying Yellow cry out for the day just out of reach, the day which unaccountably may in a moment or a season let down a joyful light i...

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$19.00
Litany of Flights

Litany of Flights

Laura Reece Hogan

$21.00

Winner of the 2020 Paraclete Poetry Prize, Litany of Flights is a luminous examination of the journey of the soul, from moments of loss to moments ...

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$21.00
Thérèse

Thérèse

Sarah Law

$21.00

In this collection, poet Sarah Law presents lucid, lyrical reflections on the much-loved saint, Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-97), whose life and writin...

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$21.00
Cornered by the Dark

Cornered by the Dark

Harold J. Recinos

$19.00

“Cornered by the Dark is a triumph.” —Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoW. H. Auden, Jorge Luis Borges, Howard Thurman, Jul...

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$19.00
The Wisdom of Wild Grace

The Wisdom of Wild Grace

Christine Valters Paintner

$20.00

At the core of this collection are 30 poems inspired by the stories of kinship between saints and animals. They come mostly from the early Christia...

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$20.00
The Generosity

The Generosity

Luci Shaw

$20.00

"Rejoice, readers, as you receive the generosity of Luci Shaw's 76 new grace-infused parable poems. Autobiography once more merges with theology as...

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$20.00
Exploring this Terrain

Exploring this Terrain

Margaret B. Ingraham

$21.00

Margaret B. Ingraham’s collection Exploring this Terrain bids the reader to join her in a journey of discovery. In a world in which speed is increa...

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$21.00
Andalusian Hours

Andalusian Hours

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

$20.00

Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O’Connor is a collection of 101 sonnets that channel the voice of celebrated fiction writer, Fla...

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$20.00
Wing Over Wing

Wing Over Wing

Julie Cadwallader Staub

$21.00

Wing Over Wing clears a path in the midst of everyday life to reveal the holy—whether catching fireflies at night, waiting at a bus stop, or experi...

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$21.00
This Far

This Far

Kathleen O'Toole

$21.00

This collection offers a rich harvest taken from one season in the poet’s creative life. Like movements in a musical composition, these poems share...

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$21.00
The Mystery of It All

The Mystery of It All

Paul Mariani

$25.00

Paul Mariani has spent fifty years writing poetry that celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity, and writing the ...

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$25.00
Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking

Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking

Jeanne Murray Walker

$21.00

Sonnets are familiar to us, but not relevant. What do they have to do with our fast-paced, tech-driven, ever-shrinking contemporary world? But what...

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$21.00
Dreaming of Stones

Dreaming of Stones

Christine Valters Paintner

$18.00

The poems in Dreaming of Stones are about what endures: hope and desire, changing seasons, wild places, love, and the wisdom of mystics. Inspired b...

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$18.00
Amounting to Nothing

Amounting to Nothing

Paul Quenon, OCSO

$18.00

After 60 years at Gethsemani Abbey, Br. Paul follows up his recent memoir, In Praise of the Useless Life, with a poetic collection that shows how t...

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$18.00
Send My Roots Rain

Send My Roots Rain

Kim Langley

$18.99

Langley offers comfort and encouragement to those struggling with recent loss or grief, helping them find language for complex emotions, and open ...

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$18.99
Prayers of a Young Poet

Prayers of a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

$21.00

This volume marks the first translation of these prayer-poems into English. Originally written in 1899, Rilke wrote them upon returning to Germany ...

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$21.00

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