TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murphy,Timothy
TI  - Devotions: poems 
SN  - 9780911042917
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Fargo, ND
PB  - North Dakota State University Press
KW  - Meditations
KW  - Spiritual life
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Devotional poetry, American
KW  - Poetry
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes index
N2  - "Timothy Murphy's Devotions revives this major but neglected poetic genre with variety and amplitude. In over two hundred short poems, Murphy explores the vicissitudes of modern spiritual life. Some of the poems are inspirational, celebrating the joyous mysteries of faith. Others confront the sorrows and failures of contemporary life - presenting unvarnished the painful dramas of sin, despair, repentance, and redemption. Murphy celebrates the saints, but he has not forgotten 'the battered, the drunkards, the sinners,' among whom the poet numbers himself. In these poems, the drama of redemption is not abstract but personal.-Dana Gioia."--Jacket
ER  -