Magdalene: Poems

Magdalene: Poems PDF Author: Marie Howe
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393285316
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”—Michael Cunningham Magdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape—hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the radio. Between facing the traumas of her past and navigating daily life, the narrator of Magdalene yearns for the guidance of her spiritual teacher, a Christ figure, whose death she continues to grieve. Erotic, spirited, and searching for meaning, she is a woman striving to be the subject of her own life, fully human and alive to the sacred in the mortal world.

Magdalene: Poems

Magdalene: Poems PDF Author: Marie Howe
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393285316
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Book Description
“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”—Michael Cunningham Magdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape—hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the radio. Between facing the traumas of her past and navigating daily life, the narrator of Magdalene yearns for the guidance of her spiritual teacher, a Christ figure, whose death she continues to grieve. Erotic, spirited, and searching for meaning, she is a woman striving to be the subject of her own life, fully human and alive to the sacred in the mortal world.

What the Living Do

What the Living Do PDF Author: Maggie Dwyer
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 152552870X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish — the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she’s living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa Rica, the old questions are back. What does it mean to be Native? How could her life have been different? As Winnipeg is threatened by the flood of the century, Georgia Lee’s brutal murder sparks a tense cultural clash. Two families wish to claim her for burial. But Georgia Lee never figured out where she belonged, and now other people have to decide for her.

The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems PDF Author: Marie Howe
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393346986
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 73

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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth Berg Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And how does one live in Ordinary Time—during those apparently unmiraculous periods of everyday trouble and joy?

The Magdalene Poems

The Magdalene Poems PDF Author: Edward Bruce Bynum
Publisher: Office the Common Books
ISBN: 9781945473395
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Love is actually a being that lives through us and many dimensions, the most ancient traveler of all. Magdalene was inhabited by it, as was her sometime teacher, sometime disciple Jesus the Christ. Together they, perhaps more than anyone else, embodied the will of love through death, incarnations and movement through the solar abyss. They left a message for us, a portal, a passageway through which we can all travel. Join them and be partly human, partly divine, taste god in all its permutations and be transformed in the luminous mystery of their experience. This is not a scientific treatise or a brief respite in the flight from body to body. It is a call of awakening into the bright memory we all share. Come, dare this lyrical blasphemy.

Incarnadine

Incarnadine PDF Author: Mary Szybist
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1555976352
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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The anticipated second book by the poet Mary Szybist, author of Granted, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award The troubadours knew how to burn themselves through, how to make themselves shrines to their own longing. The spectacular was never behind them.-from "The Troubadours etc." In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist.

The Wild Rose Asylum

The Wild Rose Asylum PDF Author: Rachel Dilworth
Publisher: Akron Series in Poetry (Paperb
ISBN: 9781931968614
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The poems of The Wild Rose Asylum give to the women of the Magdalen laundries a voice that sharpens the air. The testimonies rendered here are stark yet fiercely lyrical, bearing witness to generations of lost women and lost freedom.

Madonna Magdalene

Madonna Magdalene PDF Author: Kim Garcia
Publisher: Wordtech Communications Llc
ISBN: 9781933456430
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83

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Waiting on the Word

Waiting on the Word PDF Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848258003
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent. Among the classic writers he includes are: George Herbert, John Donne, Milton, Tennyson,and Christina Rossetti,as well as contemporary poets like Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, and Grevel Lindop. He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.

Love, Remember

Love, Remember PDF Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1786220016
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer. Some of the poems will be familiar, many will be new, but together they provide a sure companion for the journey across difficult terrain. Some of Malcolm’s own poetry is included, written out of his work as a priest with the dying and the bereaved and giving to the volume a powerful authenticity. The choice of forty poems is significant and reflects an ancient practice still observed in some European and Middle Eastern societies of taking extra-special care of a bereaved person in the forty days following a death – our word quarantine come from this. They explore the nature and the risk of love, the pain of letting go and look toward glimpses of resurrection.

Sounding the Seasons

Sounding the Seasons PDF Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848255152
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is increasingly used in worship, in pastoral services and guided meditation. Here, Cambridge poet, priest and singer-songwriter Malcolm Guite transforms 70 lectionary readings into inspiring poems for use in regular worship, seasonal services, meditative reading or on retreat.