Poetry

Poetry

“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

 

Almost Entirely

Almost Entirely

Jennifer Wallace

$21.00

Rooted in the grit of urban Baltimore and the forests of rural Massachusetts, these poems remind us that life’s tensions and polarities are energie...

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Raising the Sparks

Raising the Sparks

Jennifer Wallace

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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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What Will Soon Take Place

What Will Soon Take Place

Tania Runyan

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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 ...

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Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking

Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking

Jeanne Murray Walker

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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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Thérèse

Thérèse

Sarah Law

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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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Cornered by the Dark

Cornered by the Dark

Harold J. Recinos

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“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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A Book of Psalms

A Book of Psalms

Edward Clarke

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This collection of poems engages in new and animating ways with one of the profoundest texts of our past, the Book of Psalms. These poems are Clark...

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A School of Embodied Poetics

A School of Embodied Poetics

Scott Cairns

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Cairns has long insisted upon poetics that appreciate words as more than signs pointing to other matter, as more than names for things. He has insi...

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Poetry by Scott Cairns

Poetry by Scott Cairns

Scott Cairns

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Love's Immensity

Love's Immensity

Scott Cairns

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One of America's finest living poets has breathed new life into the early Christian mystics. From Saint Paul to Julian of Norwich, the original tex...

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Short Trip to the Edge

Short Trip to the Edge

Scott Cairns

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Poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into his midlife crisis — a fairly common experience among men nearing the age of fifty—whi...

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Anaphora

Anaphora

Scott Cairns

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Anaphora, the repetition of a word or phrase, draws our attention in new ways to the repeated term, and can lead us to moments of epiphany. In Euch...

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Endless Life

Endless Life

Scott Cairns

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From Saint Paul to Julian of Norwich, Scott Cairns has lovingly examined, pressed for the revelation, and set in verse the most memorable, beautifu...

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Idiot Psalms

Idiot Psalms

Scott Cairns

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A new collection from one of our favorite poets. Fourteen “Idiot Psalms,” surrounded by dozens of other poems, make this his most challenging colle...

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The End of Suffering

The End of Suffering

Scott Cairns

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“The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering, but a supernatural use for it.”...

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Slow Pilgrim

Slow Pilgrim

Scott Cairns

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Scott Cairns has carefully preserved every poem he’s ever published that he cares to preserve. He’s also added previously unpublished work, spannin...

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Communion of Saints

Communion of Saints

Susan L. Miller

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Excerpted in Image Magazine – No. 90 This collection of poems explores the saints of the church’s history and contemporary persons who embody somet...

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Amounting to Nothing

Amounting to Nothing

Paul Quenon, OCSO

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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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This Far

This Far

Kathleen O'Toole

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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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I Told My Soul to Sing

I Told My Soul to Sing

Kristin LeMay

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Many readers think that Emily Dickinson rejected religion and wanted nothing to do with God. And yet her poetry and life tell a deeper story. Looki...

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The Yearning Life

The Yearning Life

Regina Walton

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“These are meditative poems that seem to rise from a long and deep looking at life, in its most ordinary and familiar moments.  They invite us into...

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The Consequence of Moonlight

The Consequence of Moonlight

Sofia Starnes

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The act of writing poetry, for Sofia Starnes, is a “getting out of the way” so that a poem might occur, a poem that must itself become a place of ...

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Accidental Grace

Accidental Grace

Rami M. Shapiro

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Spiritual teacher, writer, rabbi and poet, Rami Shapiro has taught thousands of people in workshops across North America for a quarter century. His...

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Charles of the Desert

Charles of the Desert

William Woolfitt

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Featured in "The Millions" — A year in Reading, Nick Ripatrazone."Each year I read more books than I can possibly review — here are 5 of the fines...

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