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The Opening Ritual
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The conclusion of G. C. Waldrep's trilogy exploring chronic illness.
In The Opening Ritual, G. C. Waldrep contends with the failure of the body, the irreducible body, in the light of faith. What can or should "healing" mean when it can't ever mean "wholeness" again? And what kind of architecture is "mercy" when we live inside damage? These are poems that take both the material and the spiritual seriously, that cast their unsparing glances toward "All that is not / & could never be a parable."
The collection concludes with a sequence of truly grand meditations on spiritual consciousnessāin one the poet notes how, in the stillness of contemplation, the world begins to hum and resound with music. The Opening Ritual attends to and fashions its song from that music.
In The Opening Ritual, G. C. Waldrep contends with the failure of the body, the irreducible body, in the light of faith. What can or should "healing" mean when it can't ever mean "wholeness" again? And what kind of architecture is "mercy" when we live inside damage? These are poems that take both the material and the spiritual seriously, that cast their unsparing glances toward "All that is not / & could never be a parable."
The collection concludes with a sequence of truly grand meditations on spiritual consciousnessāin one the poet notes how, in the stillness of contemplation, the world begins to hum and resound with music. The Opening Ritual attends to and fashions its song from that music.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- I Have Touched His Wealth With the Certainty of Experience
- Watching the Flower-Arrangers In Ripon Cathedral
- Houses Built from the Bodies of Lions or of Dogs
- On the Senses
- Suite For A.W.N. Pugin
- The Holy Spirit as a Vowel In Early Snow (I)
- Effigy Mounds National Monument
- [The Healing Loom]
- Mount Grace Priory
- Deposition
- Fountains Abbey, Pentecost
- Creation Myth Suite
- Acadia Winter Poem
- Saint Sauveur
- Bell Buoy, Otter Cliffs
- Contemplating the Pippa Blackall Millennium Window at Alpheton Church, St. Padarnās Day 2021
- The Holy Spirit as a Vowel In Early Snow (II)
- To a Shelf Fungus in Acadia National Park
- At The George Caleb Bingham House, Arrow Rock, Missouri
- Tarry
- And the Stonesquarers
- Grievance
- I Am the Vine
- To Each Light of Which I Am a Brother
- In the Epoch of Bronze
- The Arrhythmias
- Canto Selah
- A Meadowlark in Arrow Rock, Missouri
- Suffering
- The Holy Spirit as a Vowel In Early Snow (III)
- Exodus
- Some Lines Written in Clare Priory Yard
- Marching Bear Group
- Afternoon Snow, Collegeville
- In the Designed Landscape (Garden of Planes)
- Notes ampersand Acknowledgments