Download or read book Grace written by John Hodgen and published by . This book was released on 2006-08-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2005 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Hodgen’s third book of poetry. The poems roam through history, religion, man-made disasters, baseball, pop culture, and Wal-Marts, with remarkable completeness, maturity, and dexterity.
Download or read book Poems of Grace written by Church Publishing and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading hymns as poetry for meditation and understanding has long been an Anglican practice. Some hymnals in England print one stanza with music and the rest as poetry. Americans have preferred that texts be interlined with music for ease and instruction in singing. This text-only edition of The Hymnal 1982 brings out the beauty and meaning of the poetry that has moved Christians to ministry for hundreds of years. This handsome red book is a companion to the study edition of the Book of Common Prayer and is an ideal accompaniment to A Closer Walk: Meditating on Hymns for Year A and Awake, My Soul: Meditating on Hymns for Year B by Nancy Roth.
Download or read book The Anthologist written by Nicholson Baker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Anthologist" captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose stylethat have made Baker--a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author--anAmerican master.
Download or read book Family Reunion written by Grace C. Ocasio and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. African & African American Studies. Family reunions are special occasions, a time of connections, reflections, of meeting new members, remembering those no longer with us, more than a little gossip (a good reason not to miss one if you don't want to be the one talked about!) and (mostly) good-natured kidding, occasional recriminations and grievances aired or confined to knowing side glances, and perhaps most importantly, the chance to pass on and keep alive the history and lore of the family from one generation to the next. Grace C. Ocasio's FAMILY REUNION is all of these things, and in reading this book we are privileged guests at just such an event, invited to hear the stories of her relatives across multiple generations. Because this is an account of an African-American family, it is necessarily in part a chronicle of racism and injustice and thus a contribution to the poetry of documentary witness. There are moments of tragedy (a child permanently brain damaged by being dropped by a nurse at birth) and indignity (a woman denied a PhD by Harvard because of her race), but also triumphs (one man becomes a celebrated physician, and many in the family graduate from college and go on to successful professional careers--including the author). These poems speak candidly of the experience of being Black in America. But that is not all that they do. What they reveal most of all is how this one family's story manages to be both uniquely their own and simultaneously universal, because we can all recognize ourselves and our own messy histories in these pages, whatever our race or origin. We've all encountered that uncle, that grandmother in our own families; we've heard the lectures (or given them ourselves) on hair and clothing, behavior and expectations, the suitability of suitors, all the friction at generational boundaries. Now, more than ever, we need to be reminded that we are all one family--however dysfunctional. To say that Ocasio does this with grace may be a pun, but it is also the truth. The book ends with a brief prose account of a family reunion that is hilariously chaotic, leaving the author with "hysteria welling in my throat." Well, that's family for you! But what a treat it is to get to know this one.
Download or read book Back To Grace written by Earthschool Harmony and published by Indie Author. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back to Grace is an illuminating collection of 79 spiritual poems. This book reflects the authors journey of awakening and carries with it an essence that nourishes the soul. Each poem whispers of the power of love and invites the reader to reflect on the deepest longings of the heart and search for the divine light within.
Download or read book Uncertain Grace written by Rebecca Liv Wee and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets.
Download or read book Poems of Grace written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grace Notes written by Rita Dove and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1991 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems deal with fantasy, childhood, family life, school, friendship, dreams, mortality, and memories
Download or read book The Wisdom of Wild Grace written by Christine Valters Paintner and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the core of this collection are 30 poems inspired by the stories of kinship between saints and animals. They come mostly from the early Christian desert and Celtic traditions, but also feature later medieval saints like St. Francis of Assisi and St. Julian of Norwich. These stories point to a reverence for a different way of knowing and being in the world, one our world is hungry for. Each poem in this collection is meant to be a doorway to intimacy with our inner wilderness, a call to sit and be present to what we discover beyond the borders of our neatly controlled worlds.
Download or read book A Difficult Grace written by Michael Ryan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[In] preliterate societies, even those as late as ancient Greece and Anglo-Saxon England, the poet is the ideologue, historian, theologian, philosopher, TV, newspaper, Internet, and megamultiplex cinema rolled into one”--so begins Michael Ryan’s lively description of the cultural context of ancient poetry, in pointed contrast to that of poetry now. Informed by his own experience as a poet and writer, A Difficult Grace examines the lives and works of Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Williams, Whitman, Frost, Bishop, and Stevens (as well as other poets and writers before and since), deftly combining literary history, critical writing by the writers themselves, and Ryan's expert understanding of their work. The result is a collection of powerfully argued essays written in a style easily accessible to a wide range of readers. Attending to the difficult graces of form, structure, rhythm, and technique, Ryan illuminates the unifying subject of his book: the vocation of the poet and the writer in the contemporary world. This is an essential book for both writers and readers.
Download or read book Christ Walk Crushed written by Anna Fitch Courie and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applies the popular Christ Walk approach as a path to reconciliation and healing “Walk it off,” that much-used advice of coaches, turns out to work in the spiritual realm, too. Take a walk with Anna and David as they explore reconciliation and healing using the best-selling framework found in Christ Walk: A 40 Day Spiritual Fitness Program. Through their own experiences with moral injury, illness, and trauma, the authors have found that sometimes the best way to deal with stressful experiences is by moving their feet. Over the course of forty days, readers will experience God in each stage of the healing process in tandem with a biblically inspired journey.
Download or read book Liturgy for Living written by Charles P. Price and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic and accessible guide in the field of Episcopal liturgy. Originally published in 1979, Liturgy for Living remains a time-tested classic exploration of history, theology, and spirituality that shapes Anglican liturgy and specifically The Book of Common Prayer. Writing for all Episcopalians—pastors, seminarians, and laity—Professor Charles Price and Louise Weil uncover the riches of various liturgy, including Holy Baptism, Confirmation, the Daily Office, the Holy Eucharist, and the various pastoral offices. This edition contains an extensive and updated bibliography, a glossary of liturgical terms, and a list of internet website addresses that contain documents, further bibliographic information, and links to other websites—all related to liturgical studies. “The worship of the Christian community, properly understood and done, leads worshipers to act out in their lives the love of God, which is at the heart of our worship. Worship also provides the power and the sustenance which makes this style of living possible. This Christian style of living, moreover, drives those who are committed to it back to the worship of God, to find forgiveness and strength...When this interdependent relationship is understood, the power of worship is illuminated and the power to live increased.”—From the Preface
Download or read book Emanations of Grace written by ʻĀʼishah bint Yūsuf Bāʻūnīyah and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The selection of poems from this volume, edited and translated into English here for the first time, recount ʻĀʼishah al-Bāʻūnīyah's remarkable story of devotion and mystical illumination"--Preface.
Download or read book Begin Again written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the odds stacked up against them, the Remnants seem to be surviving in the Rock's harsh environment while living peacefully with the inhabitants, but this new world still has its set of problems that Billy cannot handle.
Download or read book Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair written by Rāmaprasāda Sena and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramprasad Sen, a great lover of Kali Ma, the Hindu goddess, wrote these pieces in her honor. Contemporary translations are full of devotion and vitality. --Hohm Press.
Download or read book Reflections of Grace written by GRACE WALDER and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Can Make It The road seems long, the pressures great, You sit and wonder what will be your fate? Memories, now past and gone, Tomorrow will bring a brand new dawn. The past has gone, the future is now, But you sit and wonder what it will turn into; The things you have failed, you ponder why, And wonder if life is passing you by. Your hopes and dreams you placed aside, But as you look around there is nowhere to hide, Your fear of failure and crumbling plans, Deter you from seeing the gift in your hands. A vision is a personal goal, not a chore. God gave it to you to feel confident and secure; Even when others do not understand, Be steadfast and let your vision expand. Your steps are ordered in God’s will, Stay on your knees and consult him until; The way unfolds and is revealed to you, And you know exactly what God wants you to do. “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth in his way”. Psalms 37: 23-26.
Download or read book Fidelity written by Grace Paley and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed Fidelity, a wise and poignant book of poems. Full of memories of friends and family and incisive observations of life in both her beloved hometown, New York City, and rural Vermont, the poems are sober and playful, experimenting with form while remaining eminently readable. They explore the beginnings and ends of relationships, the ties that bind siblings, the workings of dreams, the surreal strangeness of the aging body—all imbued with her unique perspective and voice. Mournful and nostalgic, but also ruefully funny and full of love, Fidelity is Grace Paley's passionate and haunting elegy for the life she was leaving behind.
