Twenty Poems to Pray
Liturgical Press (Verlag)
978-0-8146-6469-8 (ISBN)
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.”
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.
Contents
Introduction ix
I. When Yellow Leaves or None or Few
Pied Beauty, Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ 2
September, the First Day of School, Howard Nemerov 7
Sonnet 73, William Shakespeare 12
II. A Small Thing Always Near
Hope, Emily Dickinson and Kevin Hadduck 20
Stray Moments, William Stafford 26
The Song Opens, Fr. Karol Wojtyla—St. Pope John Paul II 31
III. Gift to This Gift
A Christmas Carol, Christina Rossetti 38
The Nativity of Christ, St. Robert Southwell 44
Ring Out, Wild Bells, Alfred Lord Tennyson 49
IV. To Earth and Ashes
Sonnet 4, O My Black Soul, John Donne 56
Hogs and Salvation, Fr. Kilian McDonnell, OSB 60
The Litany, Dana Gioia 65
All Creation Wept, Melissa Range 70
V. To Carry Him With Us
Emmaus: Christ Between, Rev. Rowan Williams 76
St. Peter and the Angel, Denise Levertov 81
Love III, George Herbert 86
VI. Let the Day Come In
A Prayer in Spring, Robert Frost 92
Bicycling to Heaven, Claire Nicolas White 97
Dear World, Sister Mary Faith Schuster, OSB 101
Genesis 1:1, Gary Bouchard 106
Acknowledgments 111
Notes 113
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.09.2019 |
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Verlagsort | Collegeville, MN |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 137 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 142 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen | |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8146-6469-5 / 0814664695 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8146-6469-8 / 9780814664698 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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