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The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle (Writers' Palette Book) Paperback – March 15, 2005
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Madeleine L’Engle’s writing has always translated the invisible, quiet corners of our hearts into a vivid, stunning experience. Her fiction invites readers into new universes while her spiritual memoirs unveil the tenderness and resilience of the human spirit.
In her poetry, L’Engle’s craft proves just as striking, as she traverses the full breadth of the soul with her words, intimately exploring the contours of hope, doubt, and love. “It is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words,” she says of her poetry. “And then it is written to be shared.” Open-hearted and vulnerable, The Ordering of Love is a meditation on beauty, loss, faith, and devotion.
“A prayerful and powerful portrait of a writer who served her work, and served it well. May we strive to do the same.” —Sarah Arthur, from the Foreword
- Print length368 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 15, 2005
- Dimensions5.19 x 0.92 x 8 inches
- ISBN-100307731839
- ISBN-13978-0307731838
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“I love L’Engle’s poetry for the way it incarnates not only the great Truths of the faith, but all the little truths of our ordinary existence–our working and playing and loving and fighting and dreaming and idling and all the rest of it–and for the way it shows us that those big and little truths should not, cannot, be separated.”—Carolyn Arends, recording artist and author
“Why is L’Engle one of the defining poets of our time? Because when life hurts, she does not shrink from the wounds. She clarifies the murk with hope as we feel the lift of grace.”—Calvin Miller, Beeson Divinity School
“We are, all of us, the richer for this carefully crafted and prayerfully rendered collection.”—Phyllis Tickle, author of The Divine Hours
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- Publisher : Random House Publishing Group (March 15, 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0307731839
- ISBN-13 : 978-0307731838
- Item Weight : 11.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.19 x 0.92 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,243,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #855 in Christian Poetry (Books)
- #2,114 in Inspirational & Religious Poetry (Books)
- #3,264 in Poetry by Women
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About the author
Madeleine was born on November 29th, 1918, and spent her formative years in New York City. Instead of her school work, she found that she would much rather be writing stories, poems and journals for herself, which was reflected in her grades (not the best). However, she was not discouraged.
At age 12, she moved to the French Alps with her parents and went to an English boarding school where, thankfully, her passion for writing continued to grow. She flourished during her high school years back in the United States at Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, vacationing with her mother in a rambling old beach cottage on a beautiful stretch of Florida Beach.
She went to Smith College and studied English with some wonderful teachers as she read the classics and continued her own creative writing. She graduated with honors and moved into a Greenwich Village apartment in New York. She worked in the theater, where Equity union pay and a flexible schedule afforded her the time to write! She published her first two novels during these years—A Small Rain and Ilsa—before meeting Hugh Franklin, her future husband, when she was an understudy in Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. They married during The Joyous Season.
She had a baby girl and kept on writing, eventually moving to Connecticut to raise the family away from the city in a small dairy farm village with more cows than people. They bought a dead general store, and brought it to life for 9 years. They moved back to the city with three children, and Hugh revitalized his professional acting career.
As the years passed and the children grew, Madeleine continued to write and Hugh to act, and they to enjoy each other and life. Madeleine began her association with the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, where she was the librarian and maintained an office for more than thirty years. After Hugh’s death in 1986, it was her writing and lecturing that kept her going. She lived through the 20th century and into the 21st and wrote over 60 books. She enjoyed being with her friends, her children, her grandchildren, and her great grandchildren.
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The Jacket Photograph of Madeleine by Kenneth S. Lewis and Jacket Design by Mark D. Ford are works of art in themselves. This is my favorite picture of this gifted author.
The FOREWORD is by Walter Wangerin, Jr., and the INTRODUCTION: "Madeleine as Poet" is by Luci Shaw--two gifted writers as well.
The poems by Madeleine L'Engle are organized into sections as quoted below:
From "Lines Scribbled on an Envelope" (1969)
From "The Irrational Season" (1977)
From "The Weather of the Heart" (1978)
From "A Cry Like a Bell" (1987)
"Uncollected Poems" (circa 1966)
"Uncollected Poems" (circa 1998)
The book concludes with an Editor's Note, Index of Titles, and Index of First Lines.
This is a highly recommended book for personal reading, academic study, and/or a gift for a person or library. It was published in 2005 by SHAW BOOKS, an imprint of WaterBrook Press.
Now, the book. Ms L'Engle is a favorite author, whether fantasy, fiction, sci fi, or, in the present case, poetry. I had read this book on line, but decided that it is one that I needed to own in paper.