Christian Poetry in America Since 1940: An Anthology
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781640608122 |
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Publisher: | Paraclete Press |
Publication date: | 09/06/2022 |
Pages: | 208 |
Sales rank: | 1,044,913 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Sally Thomas is the author of a poetry collection, Motherland, a finalist for the 2018 Able Muse Book Award and published by Able Muse Press in 2020. She is also the author of a novel, Works of Mercy, published by Wiseblood Books in 2022. Over the last three decades, her poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in such journals as First Things, Plough Quarterly, Public Discourse, and the New Yorker. She serves as Associate Poetry Editor for the New York Sun.
Table of Contents
Introduction 11
Paul Mariani (1940) 23
Quid Pro Quo 24
The Great Wheel 26
Mother of Consolation 27
Holy Saturday 28
What Happened Then 29
Diane Glancy (1941) 30
Doot Dah Do 31
Why Hike God 32
Holy Ghost 33
Jeanne Murray Walker (1944) 34
Light 35
Little Blessing for My Floater 36
Staying Power 37
The Sign 38
In the Beginning Wets the Word 39
The Creation 39
Marilyn Nelson (1946) 40
Churchgoing 41
Incomplete Renunciation 43
For the Feast of Corpus Christi 43
Miracle in the Collection Plate 45
The Temperance Flu 46
Robert B. Shaw (1947) 47
Things We Will Never Know 48
Ash Wednesday, Late Afternoon 49
A Geode 50
Dec. 23 51
Pilgrims 52
Kathleen Norris (1947) 54
Prayer to Eve 55
Little Girls in Church 56
The Sky Is Full of Blue, and Full of the Mind of God 57
Ascension 58
William Baer (1948) 60
Snake 61
Adam 62
Theotokos 62
Ethiopian 63
Jay Parini (1948) 64
At the Ruined Monastery in Amalfi 65
The Grammar of Affection 66
Blessings 67
David Middleton (1949) 68
Man with a Hoe 69
Louisiana Passage: The Whippoorwill 69
The Sunday School Lesson 70
Self-Examination: Reflections in a Mirror 72
Epiphany in Lent 73
Ordinations 74
Dana Gioia (1950) 75
The Burning Ladder 76
Prayer 77
The Litany 77
The Angel with the Broken Wing 79
Prophecy 80
Prayer at Winter Solstice 81
Seven Deadly Sins 81
Maryann Corbett (1950) 83
State Fair Fireworks, Labor Day 83
Holiday Concert 84
Timothy Murphy (1951-2018) 85
Agapé 85
Prayer for Sobriety 86
Hunter's Grace 87
Soul of the North 87
Prayer for Pentecost 87
Open the Way 88
Andrew Hudgins (1951) 90
Raven Days 91
How Shall We Sing the Lords Song in a Strange Land? 92
Praying Drunk 94
Christ as a Gardener 96
Beatitudes 97
Mark Jarman (1952) 98
Questions for Ecclesiastes 99
Unholy Sonnet I 102
Unholy Sonnet II 102
Reminder 103
Hymn 104
Franz Wright (1953-2015) 105
Year One 106
One Heart 106
Baptism 107
The Hawk 107
After Absence 109
Marly Youmans (1953) 110
Transfiguration 110
The Starry Fool 111
Scott Cairns (1954) 112
The More Earnest Prayer of Christ 113
Possible Answers to Prayer 114
Bad Theology: A Quiz 114
Idiot Psalm 2 115
Idiot Psalm 4 116
Dawn at Saint Anna's Skete 117
Clare Rossini (1954) 118
Fra Angelicas "Annunciation" at San Marco 119
Prayer of Sorts 120
A.M. Juster (1956) 121
Japanese Maple in January 122
Three Visitors 122
Bruce Beasley (1958) 123
After an Adoration 124
Consolation 126
Doxology 128
All Saints 129
Marjorie Maddox (1959) 130
How Spiritual Are You? 131
Ash Wednesday 132
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell (1960) 133
To Be a Pilgrim 133
Flannery's Manifesto 134
Julia Spicher Kasdorf (1962) 135
Dying with Amish Uncles 136
Mennonites 137
A Pass 138
The Knowledge of Good and Evil 139
Christian Wiman (1966) 141
After the Diagnosis 142
Lord Is Not a Word 143
Prayer 144
The Preacher Addresses the Seminarians 145
Prologue 147
All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs 147
Even Bees Know What Zero Is 148
John Poch (1966) 150
Prayer 151
Ignored Woodwork in Old Churches 152
Jennifer Reeser (1968) 153
Nature Does Not Care 154
O Great Spirit 154
Tracy K. Smith (1972) 155
Cathedral Kitsch 157
My God It's Full of Stars 158
The Universe as Primal Scream 162
Wade in the Water 163
The Garden of Eden 164
Tama Runyan (1972) 165
The Fruit of the Spirit 166
The Angel over Patmos 167
Brett Foster (1973-2015) 168
The Garbage Eater 169
At the City Church of San Francisco 170
James Matthew Wilson (1975) 172
Passover 173
Some Will Remember You 174
Shane McCrae (1975) 177
Lord of the Hopeless Also Dear 178
Still When I Picture It the Face of God Is a White Man's Face 179
Benjamin Myers (1975) 180
The Reverend on Natural Theology 181
Field 181
Mark Wagenaar (1979) 183
Goat Hour Gospel (Such Salvage) 184
Abel, Almost Asleep in the Field 186
Ryan Wilson (1982) 187
Xenia 188
In the Harvest Season 189
Chelsea Wagenaar (1989) 190
Advent 191
Scale 192
Acknowledgments 195
Index of Titles 203