Tau PublishingA Far Country Near
Poems New and Selected
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-571-5
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-375-9
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-376-6
- Pages
- 300
- Size
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound first edition, January 2018
- Language
- English
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About this book
“Father Murray makes manifest the profound nearness of all that reaches endlessly far.” — Scott Cairns
In A Far Country Near, Murray Bodo reminds us that the poet’s true vocation is to pore over all that lies before him (the landscape and its creatures, the lives of those who walked this way before, the very textures of text) and to press those images for revelation.
New poems written from 2015 to 2017 open the book, followed by a selection from his collections since 1980: poems shaped by George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Denise Levertov, yet in his own voice, devoted to faith, to Saint Francis and Saint Clare, and to Assisi and the American cities where he has served.
Inside
- How Poems Happen and Dedication Prayer
- New Poems, 2015–2017
- Selected poems from Sing Pilgrimage and Exile through Autumn Train
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