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When he died in 2006, Stanley Kunitz was eulogized as the most accomplished American poet. Kunitz’s favorite poem was “God’s Grandeur” by the Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins. He reads the poem, and explains how he found it, in this video produced by the Favorite Poem Project. (H/T to Jim Campbell for unearthing [...]
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i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great [...]
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The poet Mary Karr has just published a new book, Lit, in which she talks about her conversion to Catholicism as well her struggle with alcoholism. She mentions in a recent interview that the Spiritual Exercises were an important part of her spiritual awakening. That’s all the excuse I need to mention Karr here, because [...]
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To Live in the Mercy of God
by Denise Levertov
To lie back under the tallest
oldest trees. How far the stems
rise, rise
before ribs of shelter
open!
To live in the mercy of God. The complete
sentence too adequate, has no give.
Awe, not comfort. Stone, elbows of
stony wood beneath lenient
moss bed.
And awe suddenly
passing beyond itself. Becomes
a form of comfort.
Becomes [...]
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