| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxv, 342 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Zazen / Virginia Hamilton Adair -- Max and Mottele / Max Apple -- Praying in the world: a case history / Marvin Barrett -- The rejected husband / Wendell Berry -- Sacred threshold / S. Paul Burholt -- Living on the edge of eternity / Douglas Burton-Christie -- Harrowing Hell -- Léonie Caldecott -- My true home is Brooklyn / Tracy Cochran -- Sam Cooke: touch the hem of His garment / Robert Cording -- Acts of God / Annie Dillard -- Eating dirt / Brian Doyle -- Fences & fields / Andre Dubus III -- What this old hand knows / Alma Roberts Giordan -- My wife died unexpectedly last march / Bernie Glassman -- Still life / Mary Gordon -- Stigmata / Ron Hansen -- A new work in the English tongue / Seamus Heaney -- Zora Neale Hurston / Edward Hirsch -- Why we travel: a love affair with the world / Pico Iyer -- Can you say ...Hero? / Tom Junod -- After Leviticus / Philip Levine -- The language of animals / Barry Lopez -- The holy ground of Kalighat / Anita Mathias -- Waltz we were born for / Walt McDonald -- On memory and numbers / Thomas Moore -- A yen for cleaning / Louise Rafkin -- Watching the ancestral prayers of venerable others / Pattiann Rogers -- Talmud and the internet / Jonathan Rosen -- The necessary note / David Rothenberg -- Some mornings she simply cannot / Luci Shaw -- A single glance: a retelling / Eliezer Shore -- A God in darkness: literature and belief / Louis Simpson -- Bible studies / Jack Stewart -- Day we were left behind / Barbara Brown Taylor -- Lao Tzu's water, Chang Tzu's mud / Ptolemy Tompkins -- Seeing into your nature and other pastimes / Janwillem van der Wetering -- Fifty-two / Michael Ventura -- Wardrobe wars / Paul J. Willis -- A Fifty-year walk / Larry Woiwode. |
| Subject |
Spiritual life -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Zaleski, Philip.
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| ISBN |
0062518054 |
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