Church Poems

Author : Kendra Allen
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063048507
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collection Plate written by Kendra Allen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and freedom, birth and death. Most of all, The Collection Plate explores both how we collect and erase the voices, lives, and innocence of underrepresented bodies—and behold their pleasure, pain, and possibility Both formally exciting and a delight to read, The Collection Plate is a testament to Allen’s place as the voice of a generation—and a witness to how we come into being in the twenty-first century.

Author : Frederick James Furnivall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political, Religious, and Love Poems written by Frederick James Furnivall and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wendy Rainey
Publisher : Vainglory Press
ISBN 13 : 9780692556733
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Church written by Wendy Rainey and published by Vainglory Press. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After reading these powerful, though deeply-disturbing stories and poems, Southern California will never be the same for me. Wendy Rainey has redefined L.A. Noir and given the grotesque entwined with the lyrical it's own unique place in the California literary canon. I'm full of admiration for the author's gifts, and sense there's a lot more to come!" -Edward Field, American Poetry Icon. Author of After the Fall. Wendy Rainey's Los Angeles is dark and menacing, the gutted insides of a glittering facade. Her poems and stories are written from the POV of those who serve at the whim of others; waitresses, nannies, production guys, personal assistants, clerks, and explore their careless exploitation by the uber-class, those self-obsessed, complacent winners with their entitlements and prying eyes. These are stories of people on the edge. A beleaguered server imagines Denny's diners turning into orangutans and farm animals. A sixteen year old incest survivor gives living another try. An exhausted waitress turns the tables on a panhandler at the bus stop. A guy out for a boat ride with friends decides it is a good day to die. In these stores, expect the unexpected. Always. Rainey writes about the marginalized and disenfranchised without pity, without mercy. Her sharp dialogue, and delicious escapes into surrealistic fantasy soar far above the quotidian world her characters too often find themselves in. This is original, exciting storytelling about a Los Angeles too often unseen. -Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen, and State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies, poetry editor, Cultural Weekly, 4 time Best of the Net, 3 time Pushcart nominee. Marilyn Monroe said Hollywood is the kind of place where they offer you $3000 for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul. She liked to say she always held out for the 50 cents. In Wendy Rainey's collection "Hollywood Church," earnest working-class people - nannies, former prostitutes, truckers and more -- struggle against a glittering glamorous lie to hold onto their souls and find (and maybe keep) a little tenderness. In this collection, we find The Sherwood Forest Inn, where a sign promises all fantasies fulfilled. But here there's no Robin Hood, no justice, and the slogan is "rob from the rich and give to the whore." Throughout this collection, Wendy Rainey shines a light on the fakery and cruelty that hide beneath the Hollywood promise. She shines a light on the underbelly of human nature in stories like "Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid," where a high-powered successful Hollywood executive can't bear her daughter's love. Her solution is to drug her loving, boisterous four-year-old to keep the kid from being a nuisance. In "Chapel on Wheels," a trucker-turned-Hollywood dreamer searches for God in a trailer on Van Ness. In other moments, a statuette of Big Boy becomes a reminder of infidelity and Hollywood Boulevard becomes the Arizona Desert. The Hollywood Wendy Rainey shows us is a grim one, far from the Technicolor dream. "You will see a vacancy there that we have mistaken for greatness," she writes. But that Vacancy sign flickers on and off, promising hope. The nanny stands up to the mother's cruelty. The trucker remembers beauty. And, in a lovely lyric poem, a swarm of Monarch butterflies descends on a freeway overpass. There is tension in this book, a struggle for beauty and hope against the odds. Wendy Rainey writes like a modern-day Jean Rhys. In "Hollywood Church," she shows us something true about ourselves and our world and helps us realize what our souls are truly worth. -Lori Jakiela, author of Belief is its Own Kind.

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Publisher : Standard Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780784721261
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Easter Programs for the Church written by and published by Standard Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding collection of dramas, skits, readings, and poems that provides easy-to-use material for adult and teen Easter services and programs.

Author : Church Publishing
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780898691580
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems of Grace written by Church Publishing and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading hymns as poetry for meditation and understanding has long been an Anglican practice. Some hymnals in England print one stanza with music and the rest as poetry. Americans have preferred that texts be interlined with music for ease and instruction in singing. This text-only edition of The Hymnal 1982 brings out the beauty and meaning of the poetry that has moved Christians to ministry for hundreds of years. This handsome red book is a companion to the study edition of the Book of Common Prayer and is an ideal accompaniment to A Closer Walk: Meditating on Hymns for Year A and Awake, My Soul: Meditating on Hymns for Year B by Nancy Roth.

Author : Ted Kooser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803259782
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry Home Repair Manual written by Ted Kooser and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts. Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend—a friend who is willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he’s spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156724005
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Poetry Handbook written by Mary Oliver and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times). Index.

Author : Kathleen Norris
Publisher : Pitt Poetry
ISBN 13 : 9780822955566
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Girls in Church written by Kathleen Norris and published by Pitt Poetry. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of poetry is a spiritual geography. Its places are varied--the grasslands and small towns of the western Dakotas, or the industrial landscape of northern New Jersey.

Author : Gary M. Bouchard
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814664946
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty Poems to Pray written by Gary M. Bouchard and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”

Author : Abram Van Engen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467467286
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Word Made Fresh written by Abram Van Engen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever read a book that turned your world upside down? What about a poem? Poetry has the power to enliven, challenge, change, and enrich our lives. But it can also feel intimidating, confusing, or simply “not for us.” In these joyful and wise reflections, Abram Van Engen shows readers how poetry is for everyone—and how it can reinvigorate our Christian faith. Intertwining close readings with personal storytelling, Van Engen explains how and why to read poems as a spiritual practice. Far from dry, academic instruction, his approach encourages readers to delight in poetry, even as they come to understand its form. He also opens up the meaning of poetry and parables in Scripture, revealing the deep connection between literature and theology. Word Made Fresh is more than a guide to poetry—it’s an invitation to wonder, to speak up, to lament, to praise. Including dozens of poems from diverse authors, this book will inspire curious and thoughtful readers to see God and God’s creation in surprising new ways.