Author : Amanda Jernigan
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771962364
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)
Book Synopsis Years, Months, and Days by : Amanda Jernigan
Download or read book Years, Months, and Days written by Amanda Jernigan and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018 A transfiguration of Mennonite hymns into heartbreaking lyric poems, Years, Months, and Days is a moving “meditation on the possibility of translation.” Bridging secular spirituality and holy reverence with the commonalities of life, death, love, and hope, Jernigan explores the connection between hymn and poem, recalling the spare beauty of Marilynne Robinson’s novels or the poems of Jan Zwicky and Robert Bringhurst. The sparse and tender phrasing of Years, Months, and Days is “an offering of words to music,” made in the spirit of a shared love—for life, for a particular landscape and its rhythms—that animates poem and prayer alike.