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A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith

A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith

A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith
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A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith

A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith

Overview


Editors Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler have gathered conversations with nineteen of America’s leading poets, reflecting upon their diverse experiences with spirituality and the craft of writing. Bringing together poets who are Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, Native American, Wiccan, agnostic, and otherwise, this book offers frank and thoughtful consideration of themes too often polarized and politicized in our society. Participants include Li-Young Lee, Jane Hirshfield, Carolyn Forché, Gerald Stern, Christian Wiman, Joy Harjo, and Gregory Orr, and others, all wrestling with difficult questions of human existence and the sources of art.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781936797332
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Publication date: 01/28/2014
Series: Tupelo Press Lineage Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 286
File size: 762 KB

About the Author

Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977. His debut collection was DANCING IN ODESSA (Tupelo Press, 2004). Among his awards are the Whiting Prize, the Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the 2005 Foreword Poetry Book of the Year award.


Katherine Towler is the author of a trilogy of novels, Snow Island, Evening Ferry, and Island Light. She consults with schools and non-profits on publications and promotional materials, and teaches in the MFA Program in Writing at Southern New Hampshire University. She lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Introduction: Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler ix
Editors' Note xii

Infinite Obligation to the Other: Carolyn Forché 2
The Devotion of a Mourner: Gerald Stern 20
Doubt and Seeking: Kazim Ali 32
The Circular Path: Jane Hirshfield 46
What Remains Unseen: Jean Valentine 66
The Possibility of God: Jericho Brown 80
Inches of Progress: Grace Paley 94
Footsteps Over Ground: Fanny Howe 106
The Subject Is Silence: Li-Young Lee 120
God the Mother: Alicia Ostriker 134
To Be of Service: Marilyn Nelson 150
Incantation: Annie Finch 164
Not a Butler to the Soul: G. C. Waldrep 180
Beyond Time and Place: Joy Harjo 202
Natives of the Earth: Eleanor Wilner 214
A Convert's Story: Julius Lester 228
Nimble Believing: Christian Wiman 242
Homelands: Dunya Mikhail 256
The Given: Gregory Orr 272
Acknowledgments 289
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