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This Far: Poems

✍ Scribed by Kathleen O'Toole

Book ID: 110670322
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Weight: 952 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781640602649
ASIN: B07Z1K898F

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✦ Synopsis

This collection offers a rich harvest taken from one season in the poet's creative life. Like movements in a musical composition, these poems share leitmotifs ̶ grief and the desire to honor those "saints" who have passed on; the sacramental power of nature; and, how works of art illuminate and console as they do. They point to the tension between the practice of monastic silence and the urge to bear witness, interrogating faith in the light of crises facing the earth and our human community. At the same time, the poet celebrates encounters that offer blessings of hope, inviting us to join her in a pilgrimage that leads us, with her, "this far," and gestures to what lies beyond.

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