I Could Name God in Twelve Ways

Essays

Karen Salyer McElmurray (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2024
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-1-9859-0065-3 (ISBN)

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I could dream in poetry, could summon words for spiritual experience, could name God in twelve ways and in ten times and places in history.

Award-winning writer Karen Salyer McElmurray details her life's journey across continents and decades in a poetic collection that is equal parts essay-as-memoir, memoir-as-Künstlerroman, and travelogue-as-meditation.

It is about the deserts of India. A hospital ward in Maryland. The blue seas of Greece. A greenhouse in Virginia. It is about the spirit houses of Thailand. The mountains of eastern Kentucky. The depths of the Grand Canyon. A creative writing classroom in Georgia. An attic in a generations-old house. It is about coming to terms with both memory and the power of writing itself.

At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, McElmurray probes her personal history from the stance of different places, perspectives, and vulnerabilities as she tenderly and fiercely searches for acceptance and a place to call home.

Frontmatter
Prologue
Blue Glass
The Roads She's Traveled
Now and Then
And Then the Holy River
Supplication
Stella, in the Upstairs Room
Vertige
The Land Between
How Souls Travel
We Were All Something Once
Animals
Leaving
Spirit House
Backmatter
Biography statement

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2024
Verlagsort	Lexington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
	Reisen ► Reiseführer
ISBN-10	1-9859-0065-3 / 1985900653
ISBN-13	978-1-9859-0065-3 / 9781985900653
Zustand	Neuware