Eye of the Beholder E-Book

Luci Shaw

• Herausgeber: Paraclete Press
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Luci Shaw is now 90 years old. The author of more than 35 collections of poetry and creative non-fiction over the last five decades, she describes her dedication to this art as a burden to "speak into a culture that finds it hard to listen." This collection of new poems—all composed over the last two years—is in many ways the culmination of a stunning career.   The joy and responsibility of the poet is to focus on particulars within the universe, finding fragments of meaning that speak to the imagination. Ordinary things may reveal the extraordinary for those willing to take time to investigate and ponder. In this fresh collection of poems, Luci Shaw practices the art of seeing, and then writing what she sees, realizing that beauty is often focused in the Eye of the Beholder.   Eye of the Beholder is meant to awaken in readers awareness of the extraordinary in the ordinary. They will find in this collection a focus for meditation and be excited into their own imaginative writing.  

Leseprobe

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

poems

LUCI SHAW

2018 First Printing

Eye of the Beholder:Poems

Copyright © 2018 Luci Shaw

ISBN 978-1-64060-085-0

The Paraclete Press name and logo (dove on cross) are trademarks of Paraclete Press, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Shaw, Luci, author.

Title: Eye of the beholder / Luci Shaw.

Description: Brewster, MA : Paraclete Press, [2018] | Series: Paraclete poetry

Identifiers: LCCN 2018031364 | ISBN 9781640600850 (paperback)

Subjects: | BISAC: RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts. | POETRY / Inspirational & Religious.

Classification: LCC PS3569.H384 A6 2018 | DDC 811/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018031364

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Published by Paraclete Press

Brewster, Massachusetts

www.paracletepress.com

Printed in the United States of America

to Jeanne Murray Walker,companion in writing and life

Paraclete Poetry Series Editor,

Mark S. Burrows

CONTENTS

Introduction: Prophets and Poets

Eye of the Beholder

I    THE PULSE of the WORLD

Trail

Writing the Vision

Take these Words

Tree

Signs

Snow Geese

November 2

Anew

Prints

Walking, October

Emergence

Cataract

Signals

Reversals

Leaf

Riverside

Chalices

Bird Psalm

Dogwood Season

Poetry Workshop

Full Moon

Camping, Nooksack South Fork

Somewhere

II   A WEB of LONGING

Filaments

Refuge

Sinai

Darkroom

Uncovering

Clear/Transparent

Regrettable

Sometimes a Prayer

Jungle Surgery

Attending

After a Time

Whelm

Where Color Is Spare

Stone Seeker

As the World Turns

At the Edge, Semiahmoo Spit

The White Moth of Ashland

Moon Power, Whidbey Island

Pond in Winter

Short Takes

Sunday in Advent

Rescue

The Many, the One

Before There Was Stuff

Treasury

The Germination

Organics

Summons

How to Grasp and Hold

Our Prayers Break on God

III  EVERYTHING BELONGS

January

New Every Morning

Cloth and Cup

Sugar Pea

French Lessons

Testify

Gratitude

The Lust for Astonishments

Road to Tofino, British Columbia

January 25

Increments

Separation

Affirmation

Ceremony of Silence

True-ing

Expectation

For the Love of Logs

Dinner with the Cousins

Goldfish

Signs & Signatures

Yield

Contemplation

God’s Loaf

The Genius of Snow

God’s Act in Acts

Epilogue: To What End This First and Final Life