Polishing the Pestoskey Stone (Wheaton Literary) [Hardcover]

Luci Shaw (Author)

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... But The Word Of Our God Will Stand Forever
... For They Shall See God
... For Who Can Endure The Day Of His Coming?
... For You Are A Mist
... Let Him Hear
Absolute-ly
After Divorce
Air Craft
Airborne Over Idaho
Airport Waiting Room
The Amphibian
Anatomy Of The Invisible
Angel Vision
Announcement
Anticipation
Antique Shop, East Petersburg, Illinois
April
Arrangement In Space And Time
Arrested
Ascending
At The Church Of The Saviour, Washington, D.c.
Aurora Borealis
Aviation Symptoms
Bare Roofs
Beachcomber
Behind The Walls
Benediction: The Grace Of Salt
Bethany Chapel
Blindfold
Bloodcount: 1
Bloodcount: 2
Bride
Bringing Back The Mail
Burden
But Not Forgotten
Caged Bird
Cathedral
The Celebration
A Celibate Epiphany
Circles
City Set On A Hill
Clean Slate
Coins
The Collector
The Comforting
Common Ground
Conch
Convention
Cosmos
Counterpoint: March 21
Craftsman
Defect
Designer
Disciple
Does Fall Go Back As Far As Eden?
Down Fall
Enoch
Epignosis
Epithalamion
Equilibrium
Eternity Seen From North Avenue
Eucharist
Ever Green
Exit
Fair, Clear, & Terrible
Faith
A Featheredd Carol
Fire Place
The Fixity Of Rocks
The Flounder
Flower Head
Folly At East Brewster, June 1976
The Foolishness Of God
For Grace Macfarlane--pianist
Freeway
Freezing Rain
Galilee, Easter 1979
Getting Inside The Miracle
Gifts For My Girl
Going To Sleep In The Country: Brigham Farm
Grandmother's Arthritis
The Groundhog
He Who Would Be Great Among You
Highway Song For February 14
Home Movie
How To Paint A Promise In January
Hundredfold
If You Care For Me
Image
In My Living Room
In The Bedroom: Dreaming Back
Into Orbit
It Is As If Infancy Were The Whole Incarnation
The Joining
Jordan River
Judas, Peter
Landfall
Letter-press: A Proof-reader's Complaint
The Little Cat
Lullaby For Jack
Made Flesh
Mary's Song
Materfamilias
Matrix
May 20: Very Early Morning
The Meaning Of Oaks I
The Meaning Of Oaks Ii
Military Cemetery: Waterbury, Connecticut
Mixed Media
Moonset
Moses Reclothed
New Birth: Heart Spring
Night Through A Frosty Window
No Backtrack, Old Hansel
North St. Vrain Creek, Colorado
Note
November 3
O'hareport: Taking Off
Odd Couples
Of Consolation
Of Elms And God
Omnipotence
The Omnipresence
On Reading A Travel Magazine
Onlookers
Parabola
Parabolas: 1
Parabolas: 2
Parabolas: 3
Parabolas: 4
Parabolas: 5
Parousia: The Ghosts In The Closet
The Partaking
Perfect Love Banishes Fear
Permanent I.d.
Pneuma
Poem Finding A Path
Poet: Silent After Pentecost
Polishing The Petoskey Stone
Postcard From The Shore
Power Failure
Presents
The Problem With Reflections
The Profligate
Prothalamion
Questions: 1985
Quiltmaker
Rapture
Raspberries
Reluctant Prophet
Remember For Me
Report
The Revolutionary
Rib Cage
Road To The Oregon Coast
Royalty
Salutation
Saved By Optics
Seasleeping: Cape Cod
Seeing The Shore
The Separation
Seventh Day
Shine In The Dark I
Shine In The Dark Ii
Shine In The Dark Iii
Shooting Gallery
The Sighting
The Sign Of The Starfish: Old Lyme, Connecticut
Signal
Signs Of Spring
The Singularity Of Shells
Skipping Stones
Slide Photography: Climbing The Mount Of Olives
Slow Passage - Teel's Island
Small Song
Some Christmas Stars
Son And Mother
A Song For Simplicity
Sonic Boom
The Sounding: Snakeshead Lake
Spice
Split Screen: Naples, Florida
Spring Pond
Stars In Apple Cores
Step On It
Subliminal Messages
Sudden Valley Road
Summer Road Remembered
The Tenacity Of Memory
Theory
Three-year-old
To A Young Suicide
To A Young Woman Calligrapher
To Clyde S. Kilby
To Know Him Risen
To The Municipal Incenerator
Too Much To Ask
Trauma Center
Travelling Montana
Trespassers
Triad: Skull Hill; Shake Down
Triad: Skull Hill; Weight Lifter
Triptych
The Trouble With Trouble
Two Answers To Poverty
Two Stanzas: The Eucharist
Under Glass
Under The Skin
Under The Snowing
The Universal Apple: In The Fourteenth Year, February 14
The Unveiling
View From The Air: North Atlantic, May 1984
Villanelle For A Season's End
Vision
Whenever
Wild Bees' Nest
Wild Oats
Winter Chestnut: Five Haiku
Winter Wheat
With Jacob
With Lindsay: Watching Sunrise Over Stewart Mountain
Worldview
The Young Girl's Thoughts Of Birds
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Shaw Books (March 7, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087788658X
• ISBN-13: 978-0877886587
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #747,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Luci Shaw is a poet, essayist, teacher and retreat leader. Born in England in 1928, she has lived in Australia and Canada and (since 1950) in the United States.

She is the author of a number of nonfiction books, including God in the Dark and Water My Soul. Her first book of poetry, Listen to the Green, was publishd in 1971. It was followed by several others, including Polishing the Petoskey Stone, Writing the River, The Angles of Light and, most recently, Accompanied by Angels (published by Eerdmans in July 2006),What the Light Was Like (published by WordFarm in Setpember 2006, Breath for the Bones (published by Thomas Nelson in 2007)and Harvesting Fog (published by Pinyon Press in 2010).

Her poems have appeared in publications such as Books & Culture, The Christian Century, Crux, Image, Radix, Rock & Sling, Relief, Ruminate, The Southern Review, Nimble Spirit and Weavings. Musical settings for several of her poems have been composed by Knut Nystedt, Alice Parker, Frederick Frahm, Roland Fudge and Allen Cline. Many of her poems have also been anthologized.

Currently, Shaw serves as Writer in Residence at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, while based in Bellingham, Washington, with her husband, John Hoyte. She is on the board of trustees of Image, a journal of art, faith and mystery. She also travels widely to speak and teach on topics such as poetry, journaling and the Christian imagination. Her website (www.lucishaw.com) reflects some of her many other interests--wilderness camping, sailing, gardening and nature photography.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended, July 10, 2000

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