When Poets Pray

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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467456888
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis When Poets Pray by : Marilyn McEntyre

Download or read book When Poets Pray written by Marilyn McEntyre and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two dozen select prayer poems to learn from and live with Poetry and prayer are closely related. We often look to poets to give language to our deepest hopes, fears, losses—and prayers. Poets slow us down. They teach us to stop and go in before we go on. They play at the edges of mystery, holding a tension between line and sentence, between sense and reason, between the transcendent and the deeply, comfortingly familiar. When Poets Pray contains thoughtful meditations by Marilyn McEntyre on choice poems/prayers and poems about prayer. Her beautifully written reflections are contemplative exercises, not scholarly analyses, meant more as invitation than instruc¬tion. Here McEntyre shares gifts that she herself has received from poets who pray, or who reflect on prayer, believing that they have other gifts to offer readers seeking spiritual companionship along our pilgrim way. POETS DISCUSSED IN THIS BOOK Hildegard of Bingen Lucille Clifton Walter Chalmers Smith Robert Frost Wendell Berry Joy Harjo John Donne Gerard Manley Hopkins Said Marilyn McEntyre George Herbert Thomas Merton Denise Levertov Scott Cairns Mary Oliver Marin Sorescu T. S. Eliot Richard Wilbur Francisco X. Alarcon Anna Kamienska Michael Chitwood Psalm 139:1-12

Poetry as Prayer

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ISBN 13 : 9780819859402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (594 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry as Prayer by : Murray Bodo

Download or read book Poetry as Prayer written by Murray Bodo and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the spirituality of nature and love for the Blessed Trinity that led Saint Francis to God. This beloved saint's Canticle of the Creatures is included with meditative reflections.

After Prayer

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Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1786222108
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Book Synopsis After Prayer by : Malcolm Guite

Download or read book After Prayer written by Malcolm Guite and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features more than seventy new and previously unpublished works. At the heart of this collection is a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert’s exquisite sonnet 'Prayer', each one describing prayer in an arresting metaphor such as ‘the church's banquet’, ‘reversed thunder’, ‘the Milky Way’, ‘the bird of paradise’ and ‘something understood’. In conversation with each of these, Malcolm’s sonnets offer profound insights into the nature of communion with God in all circumstances and conditions. Recognising that all poetry is a pursuit of prayer, After Prayer also includes forty five more widely ranging new poems, including a sonnet sequence on the seven heavens.

My Inner Room

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Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1098027485
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis My Inner Room by : Kendall Berry Lasseigne

Download or read book My Inner Room written by Kendall Berry Lasseigne and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "But when you pray, go into your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. Matthew 6:6 Every day Jesus is reaching out to us, inviting us to be still and feel his loving presence. Jesus told his disciples, "But when you pray, go into your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you." Matthew 6:6. The "inner room" is not a physical place but is the interior place in our hearts. It's that quiet solitude, the deepest part of who we are and where we can meet the Lord personally. As Kendall Lasseigne's life, family, profession and ministry grew over 20 years, so did the constant demands placed on her time, often leaving her world filled with noise and distractions. As her faith deepened, her need to slow down and spend time quietly reflecting, journaling and talking with God increased. This solitude and love for writing became her private retreat, which she deemed her "inner room" This is a collection of the prayer poems which sprang up through years of journaling through life experiences, struggles, hurts, joys and blessings. The book "My Inner Room Prayer Poems to God" is written from the heart; inspired by the soul and invites you to spend quiet time with God in your own "inner room."

Poetry and Prayer

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317079388
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry and Prayer by : Francesca Bugliani Knox

Download or read book Poetry and Prayer written by Francesca Bugliani Knox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary and ecumenical in scope, Poetry and Prayer offers theoretical discussion on the profound connection between poetic inspiration and prayer as well as reflection on the work of individual writers and the traditions within which they stand. An international range of established and new scholars in literary studies and theology offer unique contributions to the neglected study of poetry in relation to prayer. Part I addresses the relationship of prayer and poetry. Parts II and III consider these and related ideas from the point of view of their implementation in a range of different authors and traditions, offering case studies from, for example, the Bible, Dante, Shakespeare and Herbert, as well as twentieth-century poets such as Thomas Merton, Denise Levertov, W.H. Auden and R.S. Thomas.

Hammer Is the Prayer

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374167745
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Book Synopsis Hammer Is the Prayer by : Christian Wiman

Download or read book Hammer Is the Prayer written by Christian Wiman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The selected poems of American poet Christian Wiman"--

The Hundredfold

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1642290866
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hundredfold by : Anthony Esolen

Download or read book The Hundredfold written by Anthony Esolen and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hundredfold is a tapestry of hymns, monologues, and short lyrics knit together as one book-length poem in praise of Christ in all his startling humanity. Drawing from the riches of the English poetic tradition—meter, rhyme, music—the poet considers the mysterious man from Nazareth and the world he came to set on fire with splendor. Having made a career translating the Italian masters Dante and Tasso, Anthony Esolen now puts on the dusty mantle of such English craftsmen as Donne, Milton, and Hopkins in his first book of original contemplative poetry. The Hundredfold contains dramatic monologues set in first-century Greece and Palestine; lyrical meditations on creation, longing, failure, modern emptiness, and unshakeable hope; and twenty-one brand-new hymns, set to such traditional melodies as “Picardy” and “Old One-Hundred-Twenty-Fourth”. The book includes an introduction with diamond-sharp insights into English poetic form—at a time when form is so often misunderstood, if not dismissed. It provides an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and poets themselves, as well as those who simply read poetry for pleasure.

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 132403548X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by : Pádraig Ó. Tuama

Download or read book Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World written by Pádraig Ó. Tuama and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mesmerizing, magical, deeply moving.” —Elif Shafak Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers immersive reflections on fifty powerful poems. In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama’s appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem’s artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives. Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Ó Tuama engages with a diverse array of voices that includes Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Natasha Trethewey meditates on miscegenation and Mississippi; Raymond Antrobus makes poetry out of the questions shot at him by an immigration officer; Martín Espada mourns his father; Marie Howe remembers and blesses her mother’s body; Aimee Nezhukumatathil offers comfort to her child-self. Through these wide-ranging poems, Ó Tuama guides us on an inspiring journey to reckon with self-acceptance, history, independence, parenthood, identity, joy, and resilience. For anyone who has wanted to try their hand at a conversation with poetry but doesn’t know where to start, Poetry Unbound presents a window through which to celebrate the art of being alive.

Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503614255
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Say What Your Longing Heart Desires by : Niloofar Haeri

Download or read book Say What Your Longing Heart Desires written by Niloofar Haeri and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the 1979 revolution, the Iranian government set out to Islamize society. Muslim piety had to be visible, in personal appearance and in action. Iranians were told to pray, fast, and attend mosques to be true Muslims. The revolution turned questions of what it means to be a true Muslim into a matter of public debate, taken up widely outside the exclusive realm of male clerics and intellectuals. Say What Your Longing Heart Desires offers an elegant ethnography of these debates among a group of educated, middle-class women whose voices are often muted in studies of Islam. Niloofar Haeri follows them in their daily lives as they engage with the classical poetry of Rumi, Hafez, and Saadi, illuminating a long-standing mutual inspiration between prayer and poetry. She recounts how different forms of prayer may transform into dialogues with God, and, in turn, Haeri illuminates the ways in which believers draw on prayer and ritual acts as the emotional and intellectual material through which they think, deliberate, and debate.

Poetry as Prayer, Thomas Merton

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ISBN 13 : 9780819859198
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (591 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry as Prayer, Thomas Merton by : Robert G. Waldron

Download or read book Poetry as Prayer, Thomas Merton written by Robert G. Waldron and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the contemplative nature of Thomas Merton's poetry, offering tips on how to read poetry in a holy way. -- Back cover.

A Christian's Prayer Book

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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book A Christian's Prayer Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poetry and the Religious Imagination

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317079353
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry and the Religious Imagination by : Francesca Bugliani Knox

Download or read book Poetry and the Religious Imagination written by Francesca Bugliani Knox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imagination, this book integrates interdisciplinary research in the area of poetry on the one hand, and theology, philosophy and Christian spirituality on the other. Established theologians, philosophers, literary critics and creative writers explain, by way of contemporary and historical examples, the primary role of the religious imagination in the writing as well as in the reading of poetry.

Worldly Things

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Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571317635
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis Worldly Things by : Michael Kleber-Diggs

Download or read book Worldly Things written by Michael Kleber-Diggs and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry “Sometimes,” Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, “everything reduces to circles and lines.” In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love—teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother bake a cake; waking beside his beloved to ponder trumpet mechanics—couple with moments of wrenching grief—a father’s life ended by a gun; mourning children draped around their mother’s waist; Freddie Gray’s death in police custody. Even in the refuge-space of dreams, a man calls the police on his Black neighbor. But Worldly Things refuses to “offer allegiance” to this centuries-old status quo. With uncompromising candor, Kleber-Diggs documents the many ways America systemically fails those who call it home while also calling upon our collective potential for something better. “Let’s create folklore side-by-side,” he urges, asking us to aspire to a form of nurturing defined by tenderness, to a kind of community devoted to mutual prosperity. “All of us want,” after all, “our share of light, and just enough rainfall.” Sonorous and measured, the poems of Worldly Things offer needed guidance on ways forward—toward radical kindness and a socially responsible poetics. Additional Recognition: A New York Times Book Review "New & Noteworthy Poetry" Selection A Library Journal "Poetry Title to Watch 2021" A Chicago Review of Books "Poetry Collection to Read in 2021" A Reader's Digest "14 Amazing Black Poets to Know About Now" Selection A Books Are Magic "Recommended Reading" Selection An Indie Gift Guide 2021 Indie Next Selection

My Garden of Prayer

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Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781683221678
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (216 download)

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Book Synopsis My Garden of Prayer by : Helen Steiner Rice

Download or read book My Garden of Prayer written by Helen Steiner Rice and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Steiner Rice's unique artistry of faith-filled poetry forms this beautiful collection of encouraging verse about prayer. My Garden of Prayer includes beloved poetry following themes like Thankfulness, Heavenly Blessings, God's Love, and the Power of Prayer. This volume of verse, with encouraging scripture, is perfect for your own personal reflection or makes a heartfelt gift.

Meet God in the Morning

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Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1620296764
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Meet God in the Morning by : Helen Steiner Rice

Download or read book Meet God in the Morning written by Helen Steiner Rice and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Steiner Rice’s unique artistry of faith-filled poetry forms this beautiful collection of encouraging verse about prayer. Meet God in the Morning includes beloved poetry about God’s love, God’s promises, thankfulness, times of trial, hope, and salvation. This volume of poetry, with additional devotional thoughts and encouraging scripture, is perfect for your own personal reflection or makes a heartfelt gift.

The Poetry of Prayer

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Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9789652294524
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (945 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poetry of Prayer by : Avi Baumol

Download or read book The Poetry of Prayer written by Avi Baumol and published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often we find it difficult to concentrate on the prayers we recite, due partly to a lack of understanding of the biblical poetry in the tefillot. This book aims to unlock the mystery of the various psalms which comprise the tefillah. The book begins with an introduction to prayer, Tehillim, and biblical poetry. Then, after an overview of the structure of the morning service, each chapter examines either a prayer adapted from a psalm or the entire psalm and explains the reason it was chosen as part of the liturgy. Let the words of my mouth praise God and all mankind will bless the holy name of God for eternity (Psalm 145:21).

Pilgrim Bell

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451522
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Book Synopsis Pilgrim Bell by : Kaveh Akbar

Download or read book Pilgrim Bell written by Kaveh Akbar and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is, too, a kind of self-destruction, what does one do with the body’s question, “what now shall I repair?” Here, Akbar responds with prayer as an act of devotion to dissonance—the infinite void of a loved one’s absence, the indulgence of austerity, making a life as a Muslim in an Islamophobic nation—teasing the sacred out of silence and stillness. Richly crafted and generous, Pilgrim Bell’s linguistic rigor is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment. As the swinging soul crashes into its limits, against the atrocities of the American empire, and through a profoundly human capacity for cruelty and grace, these brilliant poems dare to exist in the empty space where song lives—resonant, revelatory, and holy.