Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Two dozen select prayer poems to learn from and live with … Poetry and prayer are closely related. We often look to poets to give language to our deepest hopes, fears, losses— and prayers. Poets slow us down. They teach us to stop and go in before we go on. They play at the edges of mystery, holding a tension between line and sentence, between sense and reason, between the transcendent and the deeply, comfortingly familiar. When Poets Pray contains...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"Like any other life-sustaining resource," says Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, "language can be depleted, polluted, contaminated, eroded, and filled with artificial stimulants." Today more than ever, language needs to be rescued and restored. Drawing on a wide range of sources, both critical and literary, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies is an address to everyone concerned with preserving the vitality and precision of the spoken and written word....
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