TY - BOOK AU - Zaleski,Philip TI - The best spiritual writing 2010 SN - 0143116762 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Books KW - American literature KW - 21st century KW - Spiritual life KW - Literary collections KW - Spirituality N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -