Devotions : poems / by Timothy Murphy ; preface by Dana Gioia.
Material type: TextPublisher: Fargo, ND : North Dakota State University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Content type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780911042917
- 0911042911
- Poems. Selections
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 242 M978 | Available | 33111008722866 | ||||
Not for Loan | Main Library | North Dakota Collection | 242 M978 | Not for loan | 33111008800100 |
Includes index.
"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.