Author:
Walker, Jeanne Murray, author.
ImprintBrewster, Massachusetts : Paraclete Press, [2019]
Descriptionxxiv, 70 pages ; 22 cm.
Note:In the beginning -- Sophie learns to print SOPHIA -- The violinist -- Mendelssohn finds the St. Matthew passion -- The music before the music -- Rembrandt: late self portrait -- Philadelphia Museum: learning to see -- Song of the street -- Rock -- The path forward -- Foreboding -- Breaking the blue bowl -- The knock on your door disguised as a sonnet -- Baker -- So you're losing your memory? -- Self-examination -- To the Cardinal watching me shower -- Finch -- The creation -- After the butterfly completes the first leg of her thousand-mile migration -- Poinsettia -- While hiking without pen and paper, I make mental notes -- Death be not proud -- At 10,000 feet -- Reunion -- After the deathbed: 14 lines separated and wandering -- Burying my mother -- Grief -- Her cry -- Praying for the dead -- Complaint: once more about death -- The voice -- Road to Emmaus -- Working to save yourself -- The lecture -- Rummaging thrugh language to find a sonnet -- The butterfly effect -- What was I thinking? -- Reversal -- Notes to yourself -- At the ocean -- The problem with silence -- Philadelphia: walking to work on the first day of spring -- Silence -- Ruah -- The soul longs for home -- Study: how the leaf falls -- Everywhere you look you see lilacs -- Attempt -- Border crossing -- The haunting -- Nightmare -- The cobbler -- Shoes -- Farewell.
Note:"Jeanne Murray Walker invites the reader to join her on a journey told in 58 colloquial sonnets, beginning in the slangy streets of New York and ending in the holiness of silence and praise. This book is designed to be used as a devotional and read slowly; to be both a book of poetry and a spiritual companion." -- Provided by publisher.
