Forgotten Futures

Bonnie Thurston's Forgotten Futures: a memoir is a tender heart's cry and a passionate celebration in one. There is a deep poignancy and longing here, but not a mawkish or maudlin word. We travel in two landscapes--the world inhabited with wonder for each small detail, and the internal world of half a couple, observing both the relationship's moments of grace, joy and intimacy, and those of wounding, longing and loss. In supple, accessible language, honed to beauty, these poems resonate with a sense of the sacredness of small things and the transforming power of memory,Bonnie Thurston resigned a Chair and Professorship in New Testament to live quietly in her home state of West Virginia. Author or editor of 23 theological books, she contributes to scholarly and popular periodicals. An internationally known Thomas Merton scholar, her doctoral dissertation was one of the first on Merton. She began writing poetry as a child, published her first poems in college, and is now widely published and has won and placed in poetry competitions in the U.S.A. and U.K. Of her six collections of poetry the following are the most recent: Belonging to Borders (Liturgical Press, 2011); A Place to Pay Attention (Cinnamon Press, 2014); Practicing Silence: New and Selected Verses (Paraclete Press, 2014); and From Darkness to Eastering (Wild Goose Press, 2017). A lover of the West Virginia hills, Bonnie is a widow, an avid reader, gardener, cook, and a classical music lover.