While mainly reflective poetry about life, family, faith, nature, and the magnificence of the universe, Sparkles in a Diamond's Heart also contains flashes of humor, satire, and practical theology.

Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the frst time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her wo...

From the beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time comes the definitive edition of her inspirational and timeless poetry, featuring more than 200 original poems, a new Foreword by Sarah Arthur, and a new reader’s guide by Lindsay Lackey.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 ...

“Immediate, sensual, unrelentingly intense.” —NPRA breathtaking volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love from celebrated poet Li-Young Lee, The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, and the horrors the poet grew up wi...

'Cottrell has a gift for inhabiting the most diverse perspectives . . . All are rendered in glorious physical language, a strange but apt mix of Scripture and modern idiom. The result is revelatory.' The TabletWalking Backwards to Christmas gives you a new and grown-up perspective on the Nativity story you first encountered in school and church Nativity plays. Stephen Cottrell gets you back into the real meaning of the childhood story simply by telling it backwards...

Although Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) is well-known today—as a philosopher, a Jewish theologian and a social activist—Heschel the poet is not. Nevertheless, those who have read his writings in English, spiritual classics like The Sabbath and Man is Not Alone, and have been moved by the power of his prose and the subtlety of his expression, will not be surprised to find that in his youth he had actually published a volume of Yiddish poetry in the heyday of Yiddish literature before th...

A splendidly edited anthology of the greatest poems of one of America's finest writersFrom the very beginning of May Sarton's career, in her fiction, memoir, and poetry, her work has been touched by a deep sense of order. The careful structure of her work provides an elegant backdrop against which her emotions are free to unfold, rising up through the cracks and fissures of her poems' architecture only to pass through and disappear like a summer thunderstorm. The au...

A selection of poems and prayers, accompanied by the exceptional visionary art of Jane Adams, drawn from many years of Richard Rudd's writings. Covering the span of his life and representing one man's search to pierce the veil of the invisible. Poetry and prayer are perhaps the two beams of a ladder, with the words as the rungs. If one is fortunate enough to climb high enough and peer through the veil at the top, perhaps only then can one leave the ladder itself behind. This is the intenti...

Displaying a range of voices and subjects—from dramatic monologues in the voices of Judas Iscariot and John the Baptist to harrowing personal lyrics of family, time, memory, and loss—Creech’s poems examine the difficulties of belief and the transcendent possibilities of common experience, pushing beyond mere surfaces to explore the “kingdom of desire.”Paper Cathedrals confronts the tensions between the here and hereafter, gravity and grace, and religious faith and an allegiance to ...

This collection of Wendell Berry’s Sabbath Poems embrace much that is elemental to human life—beauty, death, peace, and hopeIn his preface to A Timbered Choir, Berry writes about the audience for public poetry readings. While he sees poetry in the public eye as a good thing, Berry asks us to recognize the private life of the poem. These Sabbath Poems were written "in silence, in solitude, and mainly out of doors," and tell us about "moments when heart and ...

Lunatics, Lovers, and a Poet is an evocative collection of poems and sonnets written by Thelma Homer. It is modern poetry with a touch of the classical romantic. This fine poetry collection, sometimes whimsical and often reflective, can be read time and time again. Ms. Homer has an uncanny ability to connect with her readers on an emotional and even sometimes spiritual level because her poetry comes from deep within her own experience and personal memories.This author's voice rivals...