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by Ed Block (Author), Angela Alaimo O’Donnell (Foreword by)
A collection of–often brief–poetic reflections, loosely based on the liturgical year, but interspersed with poems on selected Gospel passages, Anno Domini will quickly engage even the beginning reader of religious poetry. It will also appeal to seminarians and college students interested in religious poetry. Anno Domini provides a selective take on some key religious themes that will, by turns, move, console, and inspire. The poems in this collection examine everyday perceptions, experiences, and events under the inspiration of faith. They also look at some familiar Gospel stories in a twenty-first century light. The collection as a whole presents a spirituality of presence, gratitude, and graceful living in the world. A book of meditative verse, less cerebral than the poetry that Louis Martz examined in The Poetry of Meditation, but like Killian McDonnell’s Wrestling with God, Anno Domini is a non-polemical yet thoughtful and serious contribution to Christian poetry. Meant for readers new to religious verse, it will appeal to busy people who need a moment’s break for the experience of gratitude and grace as well as Christian poets seeking inspiration and models for the short religious lyric.
Author Biography
Ed Block is Emeritus Professor of English at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he taught for thirty-five years. His poems have appeared in a wide variety of religious and secular magazines and journals. He is currently at work on a chapbook tentatively titled Season of Changes.
Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.8 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 26, 2016
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