Books for every kind of reader are featured in our Spring Books special literary issue.
Poetry
Posted inArts & Culture, Features
The literary landscape of Barry Lopez
For decades, Lopez has sought to re-establish our ethical relationships with the land and the other creatures who dwell on it. But Lopez, like many authors, struggles against labels.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Come Is the Love Song
A poem by Jessica Powers from The Second “America” Book of Verse, a collection of the best of America poetry, 1930 to 1955.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Why is our prayer met with God’s silence?
Intimacy can only be shared between those who love. It cannot be summarized. Intimacy lives in silence.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
St. Brendan’s Round Boat
It wanted to turn, the stern rocking around
to the front, taking the place of the bow,
the bow to the stern, port to starboard
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Psalm 103
The orchid book says to stop watering
right before you think it’s enough, which doesn’t
help much
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The truth-telling poems of Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart tells us he came the closest to finding himself in his own poetry—and even then, not really.
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There goes rhymin’ Wiman
In Christian Wiman’s new book, all easy answers about how spirituality informs the arts and vice versa are given fierce interrogation.
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Andalusian Hours
I see them lining up for slaughter,/ Judas at the head of the pack/ grunting his way to survival, while my/ pigs do not stand a chance, doomed creatures/ that they are, and it’s a good thing.
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Review: Mary Oliver’s poetic gifts
“Listen,” writes Mary Oliver, urging the reader to put aside questions and doubts as she describes terns wheeling over ocean waves, “maybe such devotion, in which one holds the world/ in the clasp of attention, isn’t the perfect prayer,/ but it must be close.” With Devotions, Oliver, who died on January 17 at age 83, […]