Between Mirage and Miracle
Selected Poems for Seasons, Festivals, and the Occasional Revelation
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
120 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.25 in
- Paperback
- 9781610974974
- Published: June 2012
- eBook
- 9781621893998
- Published: June 2012
- Hardcover
- 9781498260961
- Published: June 2012
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In this volume, Shepherd selects from these, and from other unpublished works, to shape a series of poems that seek to portray and even illuminate, to some extent, the life of the spirit. They begin by tracing the progress of a typical year--January through December--but also by noting, and celebrating at times, the high points of "The Christian Year": Lent-Easter, Pentecost, Thanksgiving, Advent-Christmas, and Epiphany. Other, more generally themed, less calendar-related poems follow, including poems that reflect on the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center--an attack in which several of the author's parishioners and friends were killed.
This is a book to be dipped into, rather than read right through. It should provide fertile soil for the practice of daily prayer and meditation.