Reversing Entropy
Luci Shaw
From the pen of beloved poet Luci Shaw comes a new collection that celebrates inspired creativity as an antidote to chaos.The poet’s own words best...
View full details“People are hungry for truth, wisdom and beauty to help them cope with the challenges of being human, and poetry offers exactly that. A poem written by a stranger who was born 200 years ago, or 20 years ago, can articulate in a short space the promptings of our own private hearts.” —Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, author of Andalusian Hours and Love in the Time of Coronavirus
From the pen of beloved poet Luci Shaw comes a new collection that celebrates inspired creativity as an antidote to chaos.The poet’s own words best...
View full detailsAn imagined conversation with Dante Alighieri written in response to the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death by fellow Catholic poet, lover and mas...
View full detailsFeaturing 23 contemporary Catholic poets, from Julia Alvarez and Carolyn Forché to Timothy Murphy and Franz Wright, this anthology is an essential ...
View full detailsA new collection by Palestinian-American poet, Andrew Calis finds hope in the Holy Land. “And we hoped in spite of only dirt For the green that ...
View full detailsNew poetry from Scott Cairns on containing the uncontainableOften, when speaking of what he has called the poetic operation of language, Scott Cair...
View full detailsA new collection from Sister Sharon Hunter, CJ celebrating the people and circumstances who help make us what we are. "For several months in 2020, ...
View full detailsAccording 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...
View full details“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...
View full detailsHoly Sparks is a collection of poems grounded in a belief in the kinship between the cosmos and its Creator. Biophilic imagery is used throughout t...
View full detailsWinner of the 2023 Christianity Book Award — Culture & The Arts!"One of the best, and least expected, anthologies in decades.” —Joseph Bottum, ...
View full detailsIn his famed treatise Either/Or, Christian existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard suggests that our basic human condition is one of choice an...
View full detailsLove Holds You is a collection of poetry and devotions from beloved author Christine Valters Paintner. Amid the daily grind, the pain and loss, th...
View full detailsAt 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...
View full detailsThe poems in Dreaming of Stones are about what endures: hope and desire, changing seasons, wild places, love, and the wisdom of mystics. Inspired b...
View full details"Steven has an Irish monk’s attentiveness to the fragility, mystery, and hidden beauties of things." —Peter Leithart, First ThingsThe book is a gat...
View full detailsLuci Shaw is now 90 years old. The author of more than 35 collections of poetry and creative non-fiction over the last five decades, she describes ...
View full details"Rejoice, readers, as you receive the generosity of Luci Shaw's 76 new grace-infused parable poems. Autobiography once more merges with theology as...
View full detailsPoems of pain and forgiveness, for those who struggle to find healing from a childhood marked by addictionTo Shatter Glass is essentially a memoir ...
View full detailsLearning about the ancient Jewish tradition of midrash, a rabbinic form of textual interpretation that seeks and imagines answers to unanswerable q...
View full detailsIf 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...
View full detailsThis volume marks the first translation of these prayer-poems into English. Originally written in 1899, Rilke wrote them upon returning to Germany ...
View full detailsSAID’s 99 Psalms are poems of praise and lament, of questioning and wondering. In the tradition of the Hebrew psalmist, they find their voice in e...
View full detailsPaul Mariani has spent fifty years writing poetry that celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity, and writing the ...
View full detailsKamienska came of age during the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and lived under Communism. These experiences, as well as the sudden death...
View full detailsAndalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O’Connor is a collection of 101 sonnets that channel the voice of celebrated fiction writer, Fla...
View full details“If rhyme and meter are, as Heaney said, the table manners of the language arts, then Angela Alaimo O’Donnell has set out a sumptuous feast, if not...
View full detailsThese poems map a private pilgrimage to nowhere—from the chair to the couch, the couch to the chair. These poems also map a public pilgrimage throu...
View full detailsThis collection of poems begins in the growing darkness of November, stretches through Advent and the seasons leading to Easter and to Pentecost, a...
View full detailsThe 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...
View full detailsMargaret 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...
View full detailsWing 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...
View full detailsWinner 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 ...
View full detailsBegin 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....
View full detailsRooted in the grit of urban Baltimore and the forests of rural Massachusetts, these poems remind us that life’s tensions and polarities are energie...
View full detailsRaising the Sparks, Jennifer Wallace’s sixth poetry collection, is inspired by the alignment of Christian and Judaic traditions. The idea of raisin...
View full detailsWhat 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 ...
View full detailsIn all times, in different branches of the Christian family, there are people who have written or sung or spoken things that encouraged us to give our lives to God and to listen to His voice. At Paraclete Press, we gather and share these treasures.