Less Obvious Gods
Author: Lisa Coffman
Publisher: Iris Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781604542226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLess Obvious Gods by Lisa Coffman is a book of poetry.
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The Awful Rowing Toward God
Author: Anne Sexton
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this powerful new collection, one of our most dazzlingly inventive and prolific poets tackles a universal theme: the agonizing search for God that is part and parcel of the livse of all of us. As always, Anne Sexton's latest work derives from intense personal experience. She explores the dilemmas and triumphs, and the agony and the peace of her highly unorthodox faith, sharing all her findings with her readers as the quest progresses. Anne Sexton's poetry speaks to our most passionate yearnings for love and our deepest fears of evil and death. The uncompromising honesty and vividness of "The Awful Rowing Toward God" confirms her stature as one of the most compelling voices of our time. -- From publisher's description.
God of Nothingness
Author: Mark Wunderlich
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2021-01-12
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 1644451387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA magnificent book of hope and resolve written out of profound losses, by award-winning poet Mark Wunderlich
The Crazy Bunch
Author: Willie Perdomo
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0525504621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era Willie Perdomo, a native of East Harlem, has won praise as a hip, playful, historically engaged poet whose restlessly lyrical language mixes "city life with a sense of the transcendent" (NPR.org). In his fourth collection, The Crazy Bunch, Perdomo returns to his beloved neighborhood to create a vivid, kaleidoscopic portrait of a "crew" coming of age in East Harlem at the beginning of the 1990s. In poems written in couplets, vignettes, sketches, riffs, and dialogue, Perdomo recreates a weekend where surviving members of the crew recall a series of tragic events: "That was the summer we all tried to fly. All but one of us succeeded."
How to Read the Psalms
Author: Tremper Longman, III
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2025-01-07
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1514002825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Psalms are well-loved by Christians, yet they also challenge us when we look at them closely. In the second edition of this popular How to Read volume, Tremper Longman III offers practical study exercises and suggestions for interpreting the psalms, helping us overcome the distance between the psalmists' world and ours.
Eating God
Author: Arundhathi Subramanian
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2014-09-15
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 935118837X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fabulous volume, containing compositions of mystic poets across India, from Kabir, Annamacharya and Chandidas to Tukaram, Meera, Akkamahadevi and many more, reminds us of the rich palette of Bhakti. Featuring classic translations as well as new, unpublished ones by acclaimed poets, it will delight seekers and poetry lovers alike.
The Ineffable Name of God - Man
Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2007-01-25
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0826418937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten between 1927 and 1933—and never published in English before—this is the intimate spiritual diary of a devout European Jew, loyal to the revelation at Sinai and afflicted with reverence for all human beings.
Before the Door of God
Author: Jay Hopler
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300175202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore the Door of God traces the development of devotional English-language poetry from its origins in ancient hymnody to its current twenty-first-century incarnations. The poems in this volume demonstrate not only that devotional poetry—poetry that speaks to the divine—remains in vigorous practice, but also that the tradition reaches back to the very origins of poetry in English. There is a sense in these pages that the tradition of lyric poetry that developed was nearly inevitable, given the inherent concerns of the genre. Featuring the work of poets over a three-thousand-year period, Before the Door of God places the devotional lyric in its cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts. The volume traces the various influences on this tradition and identifies features that persist in devotional lyric poetry across centuries, cultures, and stylistic differences. To scholars, literary professionals, and general readers who find delight in fine poetry, this anthology offers much to contemplate and discuss.
Enjoying the Bible
Author: Matthew Mullins
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2021-01-19
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1493421956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany Christians view the Bible as an instruction manual. While the Bible does provide instruction, it can also captivate, comfort, delight, shock, and inspire. In short, it elicits emotion--just like poetry. By learning to read and love poetry, says literature professor Matthew Mullins, readers can increase their understanding of the biblical text and learn to love God's Word more. Each chapter includes exercises and questions designed to help readers put the book's principles and practices into action.
Hearing God in Poetry
Author: Richard Harries
Publisher: SPCK
Published: 2021-11-18
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0281086303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Yehuda Amichai and W. H. Auden to Phyllis Wheatley and Walt Whitman, Hearing God in Poetry invites you to take a closer look at fifty great poems by some of the finest poets in the English language. Some are well known, some deserve to be better known, but all say something distinctive that will lift your spirit. This beautiful Lent book for 2022 offers six poems for every week from Ash Wednesday, leading up to Holy Week, with ten poems specially chosen for Easter. A short reflection from Richard Harries accompanies each poet and the poem, drawing out their spiritual insights and how they communicate God's presence. Hearing God in Poetry is an ideal Lent book for 2022 for poetry lovers and anyone interested in how some of the world's finest poets have expressed faith in their work. This book of daily readings will introduce you to some wonderful poetry for Lent and Easter, and give you a deeper understanding and appreciation of these brilliant works of literature. It will also help expand your spirituality to see God's presence in the world around you as you prepare for Easter. Full of riches, Hearing God in Poetry is a book that you will want to turn to time and time again - whether during Lent or in any other season of the year.
