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The best spiritual writing 2010 / edited by Philip Zaleski ; introduction by Pico Iyer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, c2010.Description: xx, 251 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0143116762
  • 9780143116769
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Contents:
The thisness of what is / Diane Ackerman -- Dante's The Inferno, Canto I: A new translation / Mary Jo Bang -- Fire season / Rick Bass -- The God of the gaps / David Berlinski -- The judgment of memory / Joseph Bottum -- Is Google making us stupid? / Nicholas Carr -- The aging Maria / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Searching / Billy Collins -- The Dalai Lama spends the night / Christi Cox -- Before the storm / Louise Glück -- The whisper of love / Seamus Heaney -- Vinegar and oil / Jane Hirshfield -- The kingdom of the eternal heaven / Paula Huston -- The return of the 'The snow leopard' / Pico Iyer -- Prince of ascetics : a short story / Charles Johnson -- Chosenness and its enemies / Jon D. Levenson -- Words on the wind / Philip Levine -- Our buried sentiments / Wilfred M. McClay -- Secularizations / Richard John Neuhaus -- The procession / Robert Pinksy -- Scriptorium: The Lindisfarne Gospels / Melissa Range -- The God of the desert / Richard Rodriguez -- I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least / Pattiann Rogers -- Contemptus mundi and the love of life / Amanda Shaw -- Ezra Pound in a spring storm / Floyd Skloot -- Why beards? / Meir Soloveichick -- The writer in winter / John Updike -- Ring the bells / Leon Wieseltier -- A measuring worm / Richard Wilbur -- The wanderer / Master Sheng Yen.
Summary: "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.
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The renowned nonfiction annual makes its Penguin debut

For more than a decade, Philip Zaleski has collected into a single volume the best spiritual essays and poetry of the year. The Best Spiritual Writing 2010 , featuring essays by John Updike and Diane Ackerman, poems from Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney and Pulitzer Prize-winner Louise Glück, and personal reflections by Richard Rodriguez and Leon Wieseltier, is sure to expand on the series' already wide recognition and reach the growing audience of readers searching for unsurpassed spiritual writing.

Includes bibliographical references.

The thisness of what is / Diane Ackerman -- Dante's The Inferno, Canto I: A new translation / Mary Jo Bang -- Fire season / Rick Bass -- The God of the gaps / David Berlinski -- The judgment of memory / Joseph Bottum -- Is Google making us stupid? / Nicholas Carr -- The aging Maria / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Searching / Billy Collins -- The Dalai Lama spends the night / Christi Cox -- Before the storm / Louise Glück -- The whisper of love / Seamus Heaney -- Vinegar and oil / Jane Hirshfield -- The kingdom of the eternal heaven / Paula Huston -- The return of the 'The snow leopard' / Pico Iyer -- Prince of ascetics : a short story / Charles Johnson -- Chosenness and its enemies / Jon D. Levenson -- Words on the wind / Philip Levine -- Our buried sentiments / Wilfred M. McClay -- Secularizations / Richard John Neuhaus -- The procession / Robert Pinksy -- Scriptorium: The Lindisfarne Gospels / Melissa Range -- The God of the desert / Richard Rodriguez -- I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least / Pattiann Rogers -- Contemptus mundi and the love of life / Amanda Shaw -- Ezra Pound in a spring storm / Floyd Skloot -- Why beards? / Meir Soloveichick -- The writer in winter / John Updike -- Ring the bells / Leon Wieseltier -- A measuring worm / Richard Wilbur -- The wanderer / 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.

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