Down in the White of the Tree
Spiritual Poems
The marriage of poetry and spirituality is of course an ancient one, and in Down in the White of the Tree, Tim J. Myers works in that tradition. But his isn't conventional religious poetry, some of which, he believes, is either inadequate for genuine spiritual seeking or antithetical to it. Myers works from the larger tradition, in which Rilke speaks of God as the profoundly distant Center on whose outermost periphery we reside-and from which Hafiz can assert that the universe is just a tambourine for us to play against our warm thigh[s]. These are poems of doubt, of faith, and of a profound love for the radiance we can encounter in the wo…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-947548-58-9
- EAN: 9781947548589
- Produktnummer: 29153137
- Verlag: Regal House Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 126 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B13.2 cm x D1.0 cm 248 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 248
Über den Autor
Tim J. Myers is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, visual artist, and senior lecturer at Santa Clara University. His children's books have won recognition from The New York Times, NPR, and the Smithsonian, with sixteen out and more coming. His work for adults has appeared in Electric Literature, LARB, and others. He's published over 140 individual poems and won a first prize in a poetry contest judged by John Updike; this is his fifth book of poetry for adults. He's also published a nonfiction book on fatherhood and won a major prize in science fiction. In addition, he won the West Coast Songwriters Saratoga Chapter Song of the Year and the 2012 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Fiction.www.TimMyersStorySong.comwww.facebook.com/TimJMyers1
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