The best spiritual writing 2010 /
The best spiritual writing 2010 /
edited by Philip Zaleski ; introduction by Pico Iyer.
- New York : Penguin Books, c2010.
- xx, 251 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
The thisness of what is / Dante's The Inferno, Canto I: A new translation / Fire season / The God of the gaps / The judgment of memory / Is Google making us stupid? / The aging Maria / Searching / The Dalai Lama spends the night / Before the storm / The whisper of love / Vinegar and oil / The kingdom of the eternal heaven / The return of the 'The snow leopard' / Prince of ascetics : a short story / Chosenness and its enemies / Words on the wind / Our buried sentiments / Secularizations / The procession / Scriptorium: The Lindisfarne Gospels / The God of the desert / I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least / Contemptus mundi and the love of life / Ezra Pound in a spring storm / Why beards? / The writer in winter / Ring the bells / A measuring worm / The wanderer / Diane Ackerman -- Mary Jo Bang -- Rick Bass -- David Berlinski -- Joseph Bottum -- Nicholas Carr -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Billy Collins -- Christi Cox -- Louise Glück -- Seamus Heaney -- Jane Hirshfield -- Paula Huston -- Pico Iyer -- Charles Johnson -- Jon D. Levenson -- Philip Levine -- Wilfred M. McClay -- Richard John Neuhaus -- Robert Pinksy -- Melissa Range -- Richard Rodriguez -- Pattiann Rogers -- Amanda Shaw -- Floyd Skloot -- Meir Soloveichick -- John Updike -- Leon Wieseltier -- Richard Wilbur -- Master Sheng Yen.
"Every year, 'The Best Spiritual Writing' brings together the finest essays and poetry on the themes of faith, spirituality, and religion."--p.[4] of cover.
0143116762 9780143116769
American literature--21st century.
Spiritual life--Literary collections.
Spirituality--Literary collections.
Includes bibliographical references.
The thisness of what is / Dante's The Inferno, Canto I: A new translation / Fire season / The God of the gaps / The judgment of memory / Is Google making us stupid? / The aging Maria / Searching / The Dalai Lama spends the night / Before the storm / The whisper of love / Vinegar and oil / The kingdom of the eternal heaven / The return of the 'The snow leopard' / Prince of ascetics : a short story / Chosenness and its enemies / Words on the wind / Our buried sentiments / Secularizations / The procession / Scriptorium: The Lindisfarne Gospels / The God of the desert / I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least / Contemptus mundi and the love of life / Ezra Pound in a spring storm / Why beards? / The writer in winter / Ring the bells / A measuring worm / The wanderer / Diane Ackerman -- Mary Jo Bang -- Rick Bass -- David Berlinski -- Joseph Bottum -- Nicholas Carr -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Billy Collins -- Christi Cox -- Louise Glück -- Seamus Heaney -- Jane Hirshfield -- Paula Huston -- Pico Iyer -- Charles Johnson -- Jon D. Levenson -- Philip Levine -- Wilfred M. McClay -- Richard John Neuhaus -- Robert Pinksy -- Melissa Range -- Richard Rodriguez -- Pattiann Rogers -- Amanda Shaw -- Floyd Skloot -- Meir Soloveichick -- John Updike -- Leon Wieseltier -- Richard Wilbur -- Master Sheng Yen.
"Every year, 'The Best Spiritual Writing' brings together the finest essays and poetry on the themes of faith, spirituality, and religion."--p.[4] of cover.
0143116762 9780143116769
American literature--21st century.
Spiritual life--Literary collections.
Spirituality--Literary collections.