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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... earth , and everything shifts to one side . The bean flower stands up to see if it's in the middle of a field , or someone's flower pot ; it is beautiful and bitter , and dies after a while , but the bean keeps singing to itself a song ...
... earth , and everything shifts to one side . The bean flower stands up to see if it's in the middle of a field , or someone's flower pot ; it is beautiful and bitter , and dies after a while , but the bean keeps singing to itself a song ...
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... earth's pull . At Travis , during the war , in that dead - silent terminal where young men crossed over or came home - some returned as freight— we passed again : you dutifully counting bills of lading , I a student , full of books ...
... earth's pull . At Travis , during the war , in that dead - silent terminal where young men crossed over or came home - some returned as freight— we passed again : you dutifully counting bills of lading , I a student , full of books ...
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... earth , dogs and birds and tumbleweeds from the fields around Hailar run silent as shadows through Calvary Hospice in the Bronx , time and space unraveling , dark threads at your hem . Now my sister's baby wakes in Honolulu , weaving ...
... earth , dogs and birds and tumbleweeds from the fields around Hailar run silent as shadows through Calvary Hospice in the Bronx , time and space unraveling , dark threads at your hem . Now my sister's baby wakes in Honolulu , weaving ...
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A Prayer to Eve | 3 |
Listening to Music Alone | 16 |
On the Northwest Hiawatha | 29 |
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angels asks Astronomy of Love baby Black Madonna blossom blue light body bones breasts breath child choir church cloud Dakota dances dark dress drink dust earth Ed Ochester Emily Emily Dickinson face feel fields fingers flowers garden Garden of Eden gentle gonna grandmother's grass green hands heart heaven Hide and seek hold hymns ice storm inside Jesus Kathleen Norris keep land laugh listen liturgy live look Louis lovers mandorla Mary monk moon morning mother move never night North Dakota numbers once pass Paul Carroll photograph Poems poetry pommes de terre pray prayer Psalm rain barrel remember river Serena shoes silent sing sleep smile snow Song of Solomon soul loveth stars stomach Swamp Thing tears tomorrow town trees voice watch wind window wine wings woman York City