Thursday, February 4, 2010

Book List:
I'm reading Holy Feast and Holy Fast again, somewhat in preperation for Lent, there are so many beautiful bits of writing from Saints and mystics collected in that book! I'm also re-reading Rainer Maria Rilke in abundance. His poems never get old or dull for me. At Christmas I was given the book Dakota, by Kathleen Norris. I finished it on the plane home and have been returning to it often as well. Kathleen Norris "gets" the Catholic imagination in a way that has been lost to too many actual Catholics, I love her writing, her sense of beauty, and sense of the sacred, her love of the natural world and her respect and love for the cloister.

I'm not reading anything new at the moment, any recommendations?

2 comments:

  1. bem, you might like Don Revell. This is my favorite poem of his:
    http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=181602

    I have a book I can send you if you like.

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  2. Do send it!
    I liked the linked poem very much!
    Thanks

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