When Poets Pray

Author : Marilyn McEntyre
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467456888
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Poets Pray written by Marilyn McEntyre and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two dozen select prayer poems to learn from and live with Poetry and prayer are closely related. We often look to poets to give language to our deepest hopes, fears, losses—and prayers. Poets slow us down. They teach us to stop and go in before we go on. They play at the edges of mystery, holding a tension between line and sentence, between sense and reason, between the transcendent and the deeply, comfortingly familiar. When Poets Pray contains thoughtful meditations by Marilyn McEntyre on choice poems/prayers and poems about prayer. Her beautifully written reflections are contemplative exercises, not scholarly analyses, meant more as invitation than instruc¬tion. Here McEntyre shares gifts that she herself has received from poets who pray, or who reflect on prayer, believing that they have other gifts to offer readers seeking spiritual companionship along our pilgrim way. POETS DISCUSSED IN THIS BOOK Hildegard of Bingen Lucille Clifton Walter Chalmers Smith Robert Frost Wendell Berry Joy Harjo John Donne Gerard Manley Hopkins Said Marilyn McEntyre George Herbert Thomas Merton Denise Levertov Scott Cairns Mary Oliver Marin Sorescu T. S. Eliot Richard Wilbur Francisco X. Alarcon Anna Kamienska Michael Chitwood Psalm 139:1-12

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 : Malcolm Guite
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1786222108
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Prayer written by Malcolm Guite and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features more than seventy new and previously unpublished works. At the heart of this collection is a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert’s exquisite sonnet 'Prayer', each one describing prayer in an arresting metaphor such as ‘the church's banquet’, ‘reversed thunder’, ‘the Milky Way’, ‘the bird of paradise’ and ‘something understood’. In conversation with each of these, Malcolm’s sonnets offer profound insights into the nature of communion with God in all circumstances and conditions. Recognising that all poetry is a pursuit of prayer, After Prayer also includes forty five more widely ranging new poems, including a sonnet sequence on the seven heavens.

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307833267
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of thirty-six poems is, once again, eloquent evidence of Maya Angelou's continuing celebration of life: Here are poems of love and memory; poems of racial confrontation; songs of the street and songs from the heart.

Author : Sister Mary James Power
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poets at Prayer written by Sister Mary James Power and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The attitude toward religion of some of the generally acknowledged leaders in contemporary English and American poetry." --Pref.

Author : Lee Bennett Hopkins
Publisher : Zonderkidz
ISBN 13 : 0310423961
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hear My Prayer written by Lee Bennett Hopkins and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Share this collection of prayers, including two original works by award-winning poet Lee Bennett Hopkins with a child that you love. Lee Bennett Hopkins’ passion for poetry is reflected in this wonderful collection of poems and prayers that is sure to become a family favorite.

Author : Gary Schmidt
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802868797
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acceptable Words written by Gary Schmidt and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acceptable Words offers prayers that correspond with each stage of the writer's work -- from finding inspiration to penning the first words to "offering it to God" at completion. Gary Schmidt and Elizabeth Stickney, experienced writers themselves, introduce each chapter of prayers with pithy pastoral reflections that will encourage writers in their craft. This welcome spiritual resource for writers includes both ancient and contemporary poems and prayers -- some of which were written especially for this volume. A thoughtful gift for any writer, Acceptable Words will accompany writers on their spiritual journey, lending words of praise and petition specifically crafted to suit their unique vocation.

Author : Yahia Lababidi
Publisher : Kelsay Books
ISBN 13 : 9781639800599
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning to Pray written by Yahia Lababidi and published by Kelsay Books. This book was released on 2021-10-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lababidi's new volume brings a dynamic flow to his subject that is both timeless and very contemporary; his insights summon us to a spiritual but entirely undogmatic journey. -Abdal Hakim Murad, author of Travelling Home and Dean of Cambridge Muslim College * Learning to Pray is a masterpiece. Yahia Lababidi is a lyrical genius touched by the genies. I wonder how he is able, time after time, to work such miracles-authentic and truly beautiful. -Peter Zsoldos, Ambassador of the Slovak Republic and poetry translator * Despite its insistence that the mystic "swoons, / defenseless / in the face of beauty," the real mysticism of Lababidi's book of longing is not private but shared: the speaker swoons, and leaves the reader defenseless in the face of beauty. -H. L. Hix, American poet, academic and editor * In lean, luminescent verse, Lababidi has created a portal into quiet worlds, guiding us to be our best selves. He reminds us of the richness of the stilled and savored. In difficult times, his poems help the reader to summon courage and beauty. -Carla Power, author of Prodigal Son and former Newsweek correspondent * Lababidi believes that there is a common denominator between the philosopher and the poet, both of whom struggle to build a bridge between two worlds, the world of the visible and the world of the invisible, and here writing becomes a form of prayer. -Osama Esber, Syrian poet, publisher and translator

Author : Jeanie Gushee
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 084996413X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night written by Jeanie Gushee and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night gives a framework for prayerful devotions with a morning and evening prayer for each day of the year. The prayers have been selected to reflect the seasons and the liturgical calendar. They are intended not to replace your personal, spontaneous prayers but to serve as a springboard for them. Editors Jeanie and David Gushee have collected inspiring contributions from Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox sources; from all continents; from the Old Testament; and from each century of Christian history. Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night will enhance your commitment to God and personal connection to the Christian tradition and the Church universal.

Author : Maggie Oman
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642502898
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prayers for Healing written by Maggie Oman and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year of daily meditations and prayers, from many religions and cultures, that together form a beautiful tapestry of comfort and strength. Every man prays in his own language, and there is no language that God does not understand. —Duke Ellington This interfaith book provides insight from various religious and cultural texts and a wide range of writings, touching on our pain and inspiring the healer within each of us. These words remind us of hope and faith, so that we may live a deeper, more meaningful, and fully self-expressed life. During moments that are filled with despair, illness, depression, or spiritual longing, this treasury creates a healing space and draws on the power of wise devotionals for reflection and deep meditation. Embrace physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation through Prayers for Healing, drawing from a select collection of influential spiritual leaders, thinkers, and sacred books, including the Tao Te Ching, the Koran, the Torah, Native American texts, the Bible, Thich Nhat Hanh, Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rumi, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Marianne Williamson, and many more. “I hope that people of all faiths as well as those who do not believe in a religion will find inspiration and understanding here that in some way contributes to their own inner peace.” —The Dalai Lama