Bibliograph

When poets pray, Marilyn McEntyre

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When poets pray, Marilyn McEntyre

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

When poets pray

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1076551571

Responsibility statement

Marilyn McEntyre

Summary

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. -, Amazon

Table Of Contents

Hildegard of Bingen: from Meditations -- Lucille Clifton: "spring song" -- Walter Chalmers Smith: "Immortal, invisible, God only wise"-- Robert Frost: "A prayer in spring" -- Wendell Berry: "Prayer after eating" -- Joy Harjo: "Eagle poem" -- John Donne: "Holy sonnet XIV" -- Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Thou art indeed just, Lord" -- SAID: Psalm (from 99 Psalms) -- Marilyn McEntyre: "Assurance" -- George Herbert: "The call" -- Thomas Merton: "The Candlemas procession" -- Denise Levertov: "The avowal" -- Galway Kinnell: "Prayer" -- Scott Cairns: "Possible answers to prayer" -- Mary Oliver: "Praying" -- Marin Sorescu: "Prayer" -- T.S. Eliot: from "The dry salvages" -- Richard Wilbur: from "The eye" -- Francisco X. Alarcón: "L.A. prayer" -- Anna Kamienska: "Those who carry" -- Michael Chitwood: "On being asked to pray for a van" -- Anonymous: Truck driver's prayer by a young Ghanaian Christian -- Psalm 139:1-12 -- Praying with poems, praying through poems: an afterword

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