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Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Editors Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler have gathered conversations with nineteen of America's leading poets, reflecting upon their diverse experiences with spirituality and the craft of writing. Bringing together poets who are Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, Native American, Wiccan, agnostic, and otherwise, this book offers frank and thoughtful consideration of themes too often polarized and politicized in our society. Participants include Li-Young Lee, Jane Hirshfield, Carolyn Forché, Gerald Stern, Christian Wiman, Joy Harjo, and Gregory Orr, and others, all wrestling with difficult questions of human existence and the sources of art.
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Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977. His debut collection was DANCING IN ODESSA (Tupelo Press, 2004). Among his awards are the Whiting Prize, the Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the 2005 Foreword Poetry Book of the Year award.
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"The intimate relationship between poetry and prayer, explored anew in this wide-ranging collection of interviews, animates some of our most vital writing. These poets are wonderful guides to the endlessly changing terrain of spiritual practice. . . ." --Christopher Merrill, author of Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain
"An incandescent collection of essays, superbly edited, radiant with wisdom, demonstrating the great truth that all poetry, all art, all human endeavor finds its fulfillment in service to something higher than itself. . . . Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, unaffiliated, non-religious: the contributors . . . unite in awe before the mystery of being. This is a noble and life-giving book." --Philip Zaleski, editor of the annual Best Spiritual Writing volumes and co-author of Prayer: A History --Advance Praise
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- PublisherTupelo Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 193219519X
- ISBN 13 9781932195194
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- Number of pages286
- EditorKaminsky Ilya, Towler Katherine
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