{"product_id":"when-poets-pray-541501","title":"When Poets Pray","description":"*Two dozen select prayer poems to learn from and live with*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Poetry and prayer are closely related. We often look to poets to give language to our deepest hopes, fears, losses-and prayers. Poets slow us down. They teach us to stop and go in before we go on. They play at the edges of mystery, holding a tension between line and sentence, between sense and reason, between the transcendent and the deeply, comfortingly familiar.   \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e *When Poets Pray* contains thoughtful meditations by Marilyn McEntyre on choice poems\/prayers and poems about prayer. Her beautifully written reflections are contemplative exercises, not scholarly analyses, meant more as invitation than instruc¬tion. Here McEntyre shares gifts that she herself has received from poets who pray, or who reflect on prayer, believing that they have other gifts to offer readers seeking spiritual compan¬ionship along our pilgrim way.   \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePOETS DISCUSSED IN THIS BOOK\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e Hildegard of Bingen   \u003cbr\u003e Lucille Clifton   \u003cbr\u003e Walter Chalmers Smith   \u003cbr\u003e Robert Frost   \u003cbr\u003e Wendell Berry   \u003cbr\u003e Joy Harjo   \u003cbr\u003e John Donne   \u003cbr\u003e Gerard Manley Hopkins   \u003cbr\u003e Said   \u003cbr\u003e Marilyn McEntyre   \u003cbr\u003e George Herbert  \u003cbr\u003e Thomas Merton   \u003cbr\u003e Denise Levertov   \u003cbr\u003e Scott Cairns   \u003cbr\u003e Mary Oliver   \u003cbr\u003e Marin Sorescu   \u003cbr\u003e T. S. Eliot   \u003cbr\u003e Richard Wilbur   \u003cbr\u003e Francisco X. Alarcon   \u003cbr\u003e Anna Kamienska   \u003cbr\u003e Michael Chitwood   \u003cbr\u003e Psalm 139:1-12","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51565227737375,"sku":"9780802876584","price":35.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780802876584_1414409.jpg?v=1769223208","url":"https:\/\/koorong.com\/products\/when-poets-pray-541501","provider":"Koorong","version":"1.0","type":"link"}