Winter/Spring 2012
Poetry and Faith
Featured
By Love We Are Led to God
We must embrace the most important engagements God offers us, even though they will happen in unlikely places and with unlikely people. By Christian Wiman
Making Peace with Imperfection
A translator of the Psalms shares her struggle to respect the original text, while rendering a version that is relevant to contemporary spiritual seekers. By Pamela Greenberg
Rhythms of Dying, of Living
Yolmo rituals around death and mourning entail a soothing, sonorous “poetics of guidance” that allows people to help one another through life’s toughest transitions. By Robert R. Desjarlais
First Poetry Portfolio
Two Poems
By Jane Hirshfield
from Stations of the Cross
By Timothy Victor Richardson
Faith Healing
By Rafael Campo
Second Poetry Portfolio
It’s Good to Sit Down with a Racist Every Now and Then
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Other Elements
By John Canaday
nefesh
By Jennifer Barber
First Song of the Tiruvaymoli, The Holy Word of Mouth
By Shatakopan, translated by Archana Venkatesan and Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Third Poetry Portfolio
Hidden Hearing
By Li-Young Lee
from Winter
By Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell
Two Poems
By Olvido García Valdés translated from the Spanish by Catherine Hammond
Three Poems
By Elizabeth Robinson
Dialogue
Marigolds in My Mouth
Perhaps we need to be “unhomed” from our own bodies, understandings, or languages. By Kazim Ali
Embracing Moments and Memories
Poetry shows us how to live, and how to remember. By Claudia Ann Highbaugh
Tribal Poetry, the Beat of Yemen
Tribal poetry in Yemen is a living, dynamic form. By Steven C. Caton
Cries of the World
The feminine principle is needed now more than ever. By Marilyn Sewell
In Review
Books
‘Nox,’ or the Muteness of Things
Anne Carson’s Nox. By Charles M. Stang
Shelf Life
Listen Children
Lucille Clifton believed in writing as a spiritual act to hone the self. By Major Jackson
Books
Into the Infinite Together
Patti Smith’s Just Kids. By Stephanie Paulsell
Television
The Wordsmith’s Two-Edged Power
Don Draper uses words to shape reality in Mad Men. By Peter Boumgarden
Books
Thin Wings
Susan Howe’s That This. By Amy Hollywood
Perspective
Home to the Ever-House
Each of the poems in this issue could be considered a prayer, an expression reaching toward the infinite or precious finite. By Susan Lloyd McGarry
A Look Back
Ultimate Unknowing
An excerpt from “Mystery, Theology, and Conversion.” By Gordon Kaufman
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