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Faith to See and Other Poems

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Kathe Palka*s poetry invites the reader to familiar places*baseball fields, the lake, church. Then, it dazzles us with grace, a well-turned phrase, insight, and metaphor. Each poem in its own way calls us to know the *world*s wondrous improbabilities.* Like *a kite to which we are tethered,* Palka*s poetry lifts us out of our seats, asks us to peer upward, to feel the buoyancy of the human spirit.

* Audell Shellburne, Editor of Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature


Faith to See and Other Poems, Kathe Palka*s second chapbook, is a celebratory collection distinguished by the poet*s essential honesty and her respect for the things she holds most dear. Charged with a sense of wonder that is informed by the deep spiritual center from which they come, these poems are a rich mixture of faith and love presented with the quiet intensity of prayer.

* Adele Kenny, Poetry Editor of Tiferet


For years I have had my eyes opened to the routinely holy epiphanies of God-With-Us through the poetry of Kathe Palka. In Faith to See and Other Poems she shares her keen sense of God*s presence in relationships and realities. She writes from a personal theological perspective comfortably accessible to the rest of us. From the fields of her youth to travels with her family and back to her quiet yard she gives us a tour of the *ah-ha* moments that God provides to those who are willing to wait, to look and to name the sacred scenes of life.

* The Rev. Jack Cherry, Columnist & Pastor of Clover Hill Reformed Church