- 262 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The Turning Aside is about stepping out of our routines--like Moses turning from tending sheep, like a certain man selling his everything to buy a field--to take time to consider the ways of God in the company of some of the finest poets of our time. Turn aside with such established poets as Wendell Berry, Les Murray, Luci Shaw, Elizabeth Jennings, Richard Wilbur, Dana Gioia, and Christian Wiman--and respond to their invitation for us to muse along with them. Walk with poets from various parts of the planet, even though some of them are less known, whose words have been carefully crafted to encourage us in our turning aside. The Turning Aside is a collection of Christian poetry from dozens of the most spiritually insightful poetic voices of recent years. It is a book I have long dreamed of compiling, and it has grown beyond my mere imagining in its fulfillment.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- The Bright Field
- Preface
- Anne Porter (1911—2011)
- R.S. Thomas (1913—2000)
- C.H. Sisson (1914—2003)
- David Gascoyne (1916—2001)
- Margaret Avison (1918—2007)
- Cliff Ashby (1919—2012)
- Madeline DeFrees
- Richard Wilbur
- Elizabeth Jennings (1926—2001)
- Rod Jellema
- Luci Shaw
- Sarah Klassen
- Eugene H. Peterson
- Edwin Thumboo
- Wendell Berry
- Walt McDonald
- Les Murray
- Robert Siegel (1939—2012)
- Kelly Cherry
- Paul Mariani
- B.H. Fairchild
- Sydney Lea
- John F. Deane
- John Leax
- Jeanne Murray Walker
- Barbara Crooker
- Marilyn Nelson
- Margo Swiss
- Jill Peláez Baumgaertner
- Marjorie Stelmach
- Robert Cording
- Dana Gioia
- Laurie Klein
- Rowan Williams
- Brad Davis
- Mark Jarman
- John Terpstra
- Scott Cairns
- Andrew Lansdown
- Nicholas Samaras
- Mary Karr
- Paul J. Willis
- Malcolm Guite
- Li-Young Lee
- William Jolliff
- D.S. Martin
- Marjorie Maddox
- Eric Pankey
- Richard Greene
- Julia Spicher Kasdorf
- Michael Symmons Roberts
- Sally Ito
- Julie L. Moore
- Martha Serpas
- Christian Wiman
- Anya Krugovoy Silver
- Mary Szybist
- Tania Runyan
- Dave Harrity
- Jae Newman
- Acknowledgements