Less Obvious Gods

Less Obvious Gods

Author: Lisa Coffman

Publisher: Iris Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781604542226

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Less Obvious Gods by Lisa Coffman is a book of poetry.


The Renunciations

The Renunciations

Author: Donika Kelly

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9781644450536

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An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one’s sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating confrontations with what a person can bear, with how families harm themselves. With the companionship of “the oracle”—an observer of memory who knows how each close call with oblivion ends—the act of remembrance becomes curative, and personal mythologies give way to a future defined less by wounds than by possibility. In this gorgeous and heartrending second collection, we find the home one builds inside oneself after reckoning with a legacy of trauma—a home whose construction starts “with a razing.”


These Poems Those Times This God

These Poems Those Times This God

Author: Believer Mitchell

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 145351810X

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In a world that is yet cold and without mercy, and that is so full of despair and pain, now comes a hope of healing that is transferable through the powerful words of this book. In this impactful and life-affirming book These Poems, Those Times, This God, you’ll take a inspirational journey through the life of a poet who documents and recounts the trying times of life that can easily crush us all if not then combated. This referential book covers various topics of life such as Inspiration from God, the state of our nation, the state of the family, the circle of love/past hurts meeting future blessings, religion versus relationship with God, and praise and adoration for our creator in life. The purpose of this book These Poems, Those Times, This God is to serve as a reference of truth and guidance for any man or woman, boy or girl, who then seeks direction when feeling misguided and to encourage the discouraged in life to yet keep their faith and trust in God. For truly it’s not about what a person has done or can do that then determines your future, but rather how you respond to what they have done that then ultimately determines your fate.


Thirst

Thirst

Author: Mary Oliver

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2006-10-15

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 0807069035

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Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the frst time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.


My Bright Abyss

My Bright Abyss

Author: Christian Wiman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0374216789

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A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry


The Notion of Turning in Metaphysical Poetry

The Notion of Turning in Metaphysical Poetry

Author: Carmen Dörge

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 3643909918

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In "Metaphysical Poetry", there is an emphasis on religious experience, which often touches on diverse kinds of turning. Among them are religious conversion (a turn to God), spatial movement (turning in space), divine transformation (turning from one kind into another), musical tuning (turning as a requisite for harmony) and circular turning. Moreover, there is a strong link between turning and its realisation through the language of the poems. Focusing on John Donne and George Herbert, this study explores various aspects of turning, as well as their interrelation. Dissertation. (Series: Religion and Literature / Religion und Literatur, Vol. 7) [Subject: Poetry]


Love Poems from God

Love Poems from God

Author: Various

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002-09-24

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780142196120

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Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz One of 6 Books Oprah Loves to Give as Gifts During the Holidays “All kinds of beautiful poetry.” –Hoda Kotb In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky—best known for his bestselling interpretations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz—brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world’s finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West. Once again, Ladinsky reveals his talent for creating profound and playful renditions of classic poems for a modern audience. Rumi’s joyous, ecstatic love poems; St. Francis’s loving observations of nature through the eyes of Catholicism; Kabir’s wild, freeing humor that synthesizes Hindu, Muslim, and Christian beliefs; St. Teresa’s sensual verse; and the mystical, healing words of Sufi poet Hafiz—these along with inspiring works by Rabia, Meister Eckhart, St. Thomas Aquinas, Mira, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and Tukaram are all “love poems by God” from writers considered “conduits of the divine.” Together, they form a spiritual treasure to cherish always.


Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Author: Peter Redgrove

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-01-31

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 1448130174

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Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003, was one of the most prolific of post-war poets and, as this Collected Poems reveals, one of the finest. A friend and contemporary of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in the early 1950s, Redgrove was regarded by many as their equal, and his work has been championed by a wide variety of writers - from Margaret Drabble to Colin Wilson, Douglas Dunn to Seamus Heaney. Ted Hughes once wrote warmly to Redgrove of 'how important you've been to me. You've no idea how much - right from the first time we met.' In this first Collected Poems, Neil Roberts has gathered together the best poems from twenty-six volumes of verse - from The Collector (1959) to the three books published posthumously. The result is an unearthed treasure trove - poems that find new and thrilling ways of celebrating the natural world and the human condition, poems that dazzle with their visual imagination, poems that show the huge range and depth of the poet's art. In Redgrove's poetry there is a unique melding of the erotic, the terrifying, the playful, the strange, and the strangely familiar; his originality and energy is unparalleled in our time and his work was the work of a true visionary.