Journey: New And Selected Poems 1969-1999University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001 - 131 Seiten Kathleen Norris has touched readers throughout America with her thoughtful and provocative memoirs of faith: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, The Cloister Walk, and Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. She is equally admired for her poetry of engagement with the spiritual world and its landscapes. Journey includes poems from three previous books spanning thirty years, along with a generous selection of new work that continues her radically individual celebration of the sacredness of life. |
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... asks , as we speed by the edges of towns . Frame houses sliced by noon - time shadow . Something is going on inside the houses : con- versations , mysteries . Night again , and I look for names of towns in the neon glare : John Deere ...
... asks , as we speed by the edges of towns . Frame houses sliced by noon - time shadow . Something is going on inside the houses : con- versations , mysteries . Night again , and I look for names of towns in the neon glare : John Deere ...
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... ask , and they nod , unsure . " Do you live in a country ? " a little girl asks . I don't know how to tell her . It's our secret country , where evil spells are broken 72 The Gift of Tears.
... ask , and they nod , unsure . " Do you live in a country ? " a little girl asks . I don't know how to tell her . It's our secret country , where evil spells are broken 72 The Gift of Tears.
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... asks : " Can a tornado pick up a plane and throw it ? " The boy says , " I can't look , it's too scary , " as he pulls down the window shade . " It's an ocean down there , " says the girl , " we'll be lost at sea . " " It's too scary ...
... asks : " Can a tornado pick up a plane and throw it ? " The boy says , " I can't look , it's too scary , " as he pulls down the window shade . " It's an ocean down there , " says the girl , " we'll be lost at sea . " " It's too scary ...
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A Prayer to Eve | 3 |
Listening to Music Alone | 16 |
On the Northwest Hiawatha | 29 |
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