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When poets pray / Marilyn McEntyre.

McEntyre, Marilyn Chandler, 1949- (author.).

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ISBN: 9780802876584
ISBN: 0802876587
Physical Description: viii, 140 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2019]

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Hildegard of Bingen: from Meditations -- Lucille Clifton: "spring song" -- Walter Chalmers Smith: "Immortal, invisible, God only wise"-- Robert Frost: "A prayer in spring" -- Wendell Berry: "Prayer after eating" -- Joy Harjo: "Eagle poem" -- John Donne: "Holy sonnet XIV" -- Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Thou art indeed just, Lord" -- SAID: Psalm (from 99 Psalms) -- Marilyn McEntyre: "Assurance" -- George Herbert: "The call" -- Thomas Merton: "The Candlemas procession" -- Denise Levertov: "The avowal" -- Galway Kinnell: "Prayer" -- Scott Cairns: "Possible answers to prayer" -- Mary Oliver: "Praying" -- Marin Sorescu: "Prayer" -- T.S. Eliot: from "The dry salvages" -- Richard Wilbur: from "The eye" -- Francisco X. Alarcón: "L.A. prayer" -- Anna Kamienska: "Those who carry" -- Michael Chitwood: "On being asked to pray for a van" -- Anonymous: Truck driver's prayer by a young Ghanaian Christian -- Psalm 139:1-12 -- Praying with poems, praying through poems: an afterword.