Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals
by Mark BauerleinIn this episode, Matthew Mehan discusses children’s literature, the power of poetry, and his recent book, Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals. Continue Reading »
In this episode, Matthew Mehan discusses children’s literature, the power of poetry, and his recent book, Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals. Continue Reading »
If you’re going to take on a monument and judge it false, you need to get your facts straight. Continue Reading »
Did heaven ever seem so far?Remember—we are as You were,but all our lives, from birth to death—Gethsemane in every breath. —Michael R. . . . . Continue Reading »
Chaucer: A European Life marion turner princeton, 624 pages, $39.95 Chaucer has not lacked for biographies, but Marion Turner’s is of a rare ambition and competence. Its method is geographical, even topographical, approaching the poet’s life by way of the extraordinarily disparate places . . . . Continue Reading »
It is warmth which floods you,the plane tree, peeling, new, the bud, the tingled lips,bark smooth to fingertips your own trunk pulsing throughwith love. With coffee, too. —Alison . . . . Continue Reading »
after reading Richard Wilbur’s “Hamlen Brook” Gliding upon cascades of sound, the crumpled leaves that ride the rushmake visible a crystal underhush that gives the movement ground. With . . . . Continue Reading »
I cut a hawthorn, stripped the outer barkwhich left five shades of red to contemplate.The first, as dark as blood, the Savior’s markleft by those thorns that ripped his brow, pressed hatedown deep and sprouted. Next, a lighter shadecontrasted, dried like dye cast on a robeof royalty, a third with . . . . Continue Reading »
Murray’s poems pack an impossible amount of meaning into short lines. Continue Reading »
Murray’s writing about the landscape and mores of rural Australia drew attention in his home country. Continue Reading »
Your gown falls fold on fold, Mary, fullof shadows softening your odd proportions.You sit all wrong, holding Jesus’ body,his large frame draped across your too-wide lap.Your over-sized right hand supports his shoulder.You turn your left hand upward, open, empty.On the rocks of Golgotha you . . . . Continue Reading »