Twenty Poems to Pray

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Drawing from the poetry of generations of esteemed writers Gary Bouchard shows how poems often express the longings of the human heart as a kind of prayer. Emily Dickinson, Rev. Rowan Williams, Pope John Paul II, Christina Rossetti, Robert Frost, and Fr. Kilian McDonnell, OSB, among others, offer readers an inspiring path to reflect upon and pray with poetic verse.Arranged under six engaging themes, each selection uses the words of poets as vehicles to prompt “heaven in ordinary” or to praise like “exalted manna”; to find the right “paraphrase” for your own soul or maybe sense your “soul’s blood”; to muster up from your grief or anger “reversed thunder” or dare to articulate from your own personal anguish “Christ-side-piercing spear.”

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Utgivningsdatum2019-09-06
Mått137 x 210 x 6 mm
Vikt142 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor128
FörlagLiturgical Press
ISBN9780814664698

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Gary M. Bouchard is the director of the Gregory J. Grappone Humanities Institute at Saint Anselm College, where he has taught in the English department for over three decades. During those years he also served as department chair and as the college’s executive vice president. A specialist in the field of early modern poetry, he is the author of Colin’s Campus: Cambridge Life and the English Eclogue (2000) and Southwell’s Sphere: The Influence of England’s Secret Poet (2019). Gary is the consulting editor and a Catholic Press Association award-winning writer for Parable, the magazine of the Catholic Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire.

ContentsIntroduction ixI. When Yellow Leaves or None or FewPied Beauty, Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ 2September, the First Day of School, Howard Nemerov 7Sonnet 73, William Shakespeare 12II. A Small Thing Always NearHope, Emily Dickinson and Kevin Hadduck 20Stray Moments, William Stafford 26The Song Opens, Fr. Karol Wojtyla—St. Pope John Paul II 31III. Gift to This GiftA Christmas Carol, Christina Rossetti 38The Nativity of Christ, St. Robert Southwell 44Ring Out, Wild Bells, Alfred Lord Tennyson 49IV. To Earth and AshesSonnet 4, O My Black Soul, John Donne 56Hogs and Salvation, Fr. Kilian McDonnell, OSB 60The Litany, Dana Gioia 65All Creation Wept, Melissa Range 70V. To Carry Him With UsEmmaus: Christ Between, Rev. Rowan Williams 76St. Peter and the Angel, Denise Levertov 81Love III, George Herbert 86VI. Let the Day Come InA Prayer in Spring, Robert Frost 92Bicycling to Heaven, Claire Nicolas White 97Dear World, Sister Mary Faith Schuster, OSB 101Genesis 1:1, Gary Bouchard 106Acknowledgments 111Notes 113

“I’m delighted to have this exquisite bouquet of poetic flowers selected by Gary M. Bouchard. He has culled and arranged them beautifully, drawing a range of the finest poets in the Christian tradition. Poetry is indeed prayer—a kind of incarnation language. And these poems will assist us in drawing close to God in contemplation. I recommend this for every Christian, an aid to satisfying devotional hours.”Jay Parini, author of New and Collected Poems, 1975-2015Professor of English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College, Vermont