Writing the Australian Crawl (Poets on Poetry)2 reviews William Stafford University of Michigan Press, 1978 A fabulous dissertation on the craft of writing + A Seminal Work of Poetic Insight William Stafford has a way of writing that makes you feel like a welcome guest in his house. Here he talks in prosaic passages about what is important in writing, how to inspire your own writing, together with examples of his own work. Reading this book is much like reading Stafford's poetry. The ...             The Living: A Novel20 reviews Annie Dillard Harper Perennial, 1993 One Great Book + Grand Scale + Extemely Detailed - Classic Annie Dillard Annie Dillard wrote an amazing novel of western struggle in the late 1800's. This book was filled with conflict, vivid images, and a great plot. This book takes the reader to the northern part of Washington in the late 1800's. The book fallows many charcters through hardships, death, joy, and many ...             Writing Poems6 reviews Michelle Boisseau, Robert Wallace Longman, 2003 This book is like an MFA program in poetry in 410 pages. + Powerful Creative Writing Text for Poets + If you want to read a text on writing poetry, this is it + Seek an earlier edition             Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft41 reviews Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French Longman, 2006 Solid guide to the craft + The Best Writing Craft Book I Own!!!!!!!! + I haven't come across a better guide to writing short fiction + Great book, but.... + Help for the writer's block writer             Meditating on Four Quartets2 reviews John E. Booty Forward Movement, 2003 An Excellent Reading of Four Quartets Good for those who want to understand the Four Quartets for personal, spiritual use. Even better for those want a scholarly handling that does not violate Eliot's premise that poetry should be experienced rather than forced into false patterns! Booty does not attempt to offer a "comprehensive ...             The Language of Life8 reviews Bill Moyers Main Street Books, 1996 Poetry alive & breathing + I JUST LOVE IT! + A strong collection with a few really good interviews The companion book to Moyers' PBS series "The Power of the Word" and "The Language of Life," which brought to a national audience the vigorous living poetry of a number of contemporary poets from the U.S. and abroad. Poetry is not the dead old thing critics like Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler ...             Martin & Meditations on the South Valley3 reviews Jimmy Santiago Baca New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1987 jimmy writes from the heart + Walking the dusty streets of our hearts + Beautiful verse and surreal imagery! Jimmy Santiago Baca writes of experiences that most people will never have, except through the reading of this epic poem...many may think that they have a 'hard' life, but to read the author's story is to have but a glimpse of the beauty and pain that he has lived, and survived, and become ...             Eva Mary3 reviews Linda McCarriston Another Chicago Press, 1991 Witness to the evils of "a man's home is his castle" + Oww + Breaking a Circle Too easy to call this book confessional or post-confessional, labels which too often have reduced its predecessors (I'm thinking especially of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton) to stereotypes of hysteria. The reduction was wrong there; it would be wrong here too. What *is* here is a calling to account ...             Essential Haiku (Essential Poets)15 reviews Hass Ecco, 1995 graceful translations + Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful + A brilliant collection + The best selection and the best translations + American haiku             The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage27 reviews Paul Elie Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004 A Lifeboat for Catholics drowning in the sins of the Church + Recommended for honest searchers + The Life You Save May Be Your Own + "Predicament shared in common"             Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing4 reviews Thomas Merton New Seeds, 2007 Art and Contemplative Spirituality + MoreThan Just Writing + Always At Heart A Writer A poignant collection of excerpts of Thomas Merton's writing, spanning his entire monastic writing career: from his journals, personal letters, essays, and books. Thomas Merton, of course, is an internationally acclaimed and respected writer and contemplative. If you are interested in art ...             Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation18 reviews Miroslav Volf Abingdon Press, 1996 The Cross, the Self, and the Other + Challenging + Exclusion and Embrace + Creative Differentiation vs. Sinful Exclusion             To Know as We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey27 reviews Parker J. Palmer HarperOne, 1993 Outstanding and transformational! + Rekindling excitement about teaching + Palmer's classic + Knowing as a Journey             Subversive Orthodoxy: Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise4 reviews Robert Inchausti Brazos Press, 2005 Introduction To The International Contemplative Underground + A True Counter-Culture + Creative Tradition While the fundamentalists and Christo-fascists are usurping the christian tradition and attempting to take over society, an international contemplative counter-culture seethes in the underbelly of our crudely global society. Throw out all you believe Christianity is and can ever be; dismiss with ...             The Darkness Around Us is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford5 reviews William Stafford Harper Perennial, 1993 Stafford: an inspiration and guide + Traveling Through the Dark + Traveling Through the Dark + A Fine Selection             Open Mind Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel7 reviews Thomas Keating Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006 I am enjoying this book. + good intro to centering prayer and the works of Fr. Keating + Open Mind, Open Heart + Open Mind Open Heart + Prime source for learning Centering Prayer             Abortion and the Early Church: Christian, Jewish and Pagan Attitudes in the Greco-Roman World4 reviews Michael J. Gorman Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1998 Illumining Picture of Historic Christian Position + Excellent resource except for the last chapter + An Excellent Resource, but Loses it in the Final Chapter + Amazing/Relevant Parallels with Current Debate             From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions12 reviews Ruth A. Tucker Zondervan, 2004 A good overview of missions past and present + Great + Brad's review + A great overview of world missions history + great history of the Church             The Writing Life37 reviews Annie Dillard Harper Perennial, 1990 One writer's practice and wisdom + A Gem of a Book + Dangerously Engaging + Good to have a cup of tea with once in a while             Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally ...19 reviews Mike Rose Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005 Interesting Account of Literacy Education + Excellent personal account + An English Teacher's Guide to Struggling Students + Lives on te boundary........