Evensong
by Lafemina, Gerry; Prevost, ChadFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-09-01
Publisher(s): Bottom Dog Pr
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Summary
"This anthology, Evensong, is a celebration of the rich spiritual tapestry that is contemporary American religious experience. If this book is flawed recall that to be spiritual is to have faith even when one doubts, to see the flaws yet find belief. "When I write poetry, I try to give myself over to the sublime, to that which is great within, to that which knows what I don’t know I know. When I participate in the writing life, I try to be giving to that which has given to me. And, let’s face it, being a poet in America sometimes feels like taking a vow of poverty! But it also provides a community of others who share a belief in the power of poetry to be redemptive, to change the moral, emotional or spiritual landscapes if only for a brief moment. "Please consider this anthology a meeting house: not everyone has shown up to services, but they’re all here in spirit." from "Introduction" by Gerry LaFemina
Table of Contents
| The man and the wolf | |
| Nicaragua in a voice | |
| Yellow morning | |
| Pursuit of the yellow house | |
| The name of God | |
| Above the attic of the yellow house there is another set of stairs | |
| A little poem about God | |
| Keepin my own company | |
| Star apocrapha | |
| De Rerum Natura | |
| Taking turns | |
| Prayer | |
| Some heaven | |
| Amish gardens | |
| Prairie liturgy | |
| Prayer requests at a Mennonite church | |
| How else | |
| Some say I'm lucky, the way I lived through my death | |
| Returning the Indian pottery | |
| Porter got ahead of the Lord | |
| Service station, Tennessee | |
| My grandmother takes the youth group to services | |
| Ark | |
| And thou shalt be called a new name which the mouth of the Lord shall name | |
| Sunday morning | |
| Annunciation | |
| Religion | |
| Scapegoat | |
| Knowledge | |
| Here | |
| The death of God | |
| Afterlife | |
| Salvation | |
| Confession | |
| Benediction | |
| Gwiajtska | |
| Angelus | |
| Halo | |
| Penance | |
| Stain | |
| True confessions | |
| Proverbs | |
| Chapel | |
| Rendez-vous | |
| Eve | |
| Watching the Oregon whale | |
| Elegy for my father | |
| Winter solstice chant | |
| Summer solstice chant | |
| Earth goddess and sky god | |
| And yet | |
| Unicycles of the dead | |
| Aftermath : pinpoint and torrent | |
| Viewing the holy ghost, Horseshoe Canyon | |
| Crazy Horse mountain | |
| Coyote bliss | |
| The lesson of Samson | |
| Ruth's advice | |
| Cain's legacy | |
| Tidings | |
| Magdalena | |
| Mother tongue | |
| Memory of fire | |
| Thirteenth apostle | |
| And their sins shall be white as snow | |
| And not for any other name | |
| Would I have come | |
| Called to serve him | |
| The desert fathers | |
| Extreme unction | |
| Like a dog to his own vomit | |
| My last night on Rhodes | |
| Menominee Rez, Sunday morning | |
| Kansas grasslands | |
| Flint hills twilight | |
| Rough-legged hawk : Iowa | |
| American robin | |
| Kene : bald eagle | |
| The bear emerges | |
| Terese of Avila (1515-82) | |
| Facing it | |
| What I'm telling you | |
| The waves | |
| My father's words | |
| The news | |
| For Rachel, just before speech | |
| Dear God | |
| Approaching seventy | |
| In May | |
| Four psalms | |
| Everywoman her own theology | |
| In memory | |
| Homage | |
| My mother amid the shades | |
| Let me rest on that peaceful mountain | |
| Palm Sunday | |
| Detail from "The lamentation over the dead Christ" | |
| History | |
| In a glance | |
| Ambition | |
| Late shift | |
| Anthem | |
| One stone to Samadhi | |
| Peacock | |
| Clouds | |
| Shaking free of an epiphany | |
| Survivors have victims | |
| When your number's UP | |
| A keeper | |
| I have come to witness the sacred | |
| Thank you note to the guests | |
| Maintenant : a present that inclines us to one another's light | |
| Order, like the sequence of the seasons | |
| Permanent boarders | |
| Letting in the light | |
| Alone with roses | |
| Waiting for Jizo | |
| The beautiful beasts are returning | |
| The body remembers itself in wholeness | |
| Breaking Karma | |
| The thought of heaven | |
| First light | |
| Justice | |
| Apocalypse | |
| Lord, forgive a spirit | |
| The bridge (2) | |
| Not God | |
| Two weeks | |
| Cancer prayer | |
| Chapel | |
| Pine nuts | |
| Luck | |
| Driftwood | |
| The conversion of Saint Paul | |
| Christ at the Apollo, 1962 | |
| God at forty | |
| Baptism with water moccasin | |
| Grail | |
| Lively oracles | |
| The grace of dreams | |
| I didn't ask for my parents | |
| I was sung into this world | |
| Fragments of a journey | |
| Prayer in Sufi spirit | |
| Abdul-Baha | |
| Awakening | |
| La Dolceamara Vita | |
| In praise of Han Shan | |
| Little Apocalypse | |
| Snake eyes | |
| Rosso Venexiano | |
| Words are the diminution of all things | |
| Gospel according to St. Someone | |
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