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This nonfiction memoir of a chronically ill poet who rediscovers her Catholic faith and perceives its healing power reads like a cross between Kathleen Norris and Carlos Castaneda. Swander, an Iowa poet who developed a paralyzing neurological condition when her car was hit by a drunk driver, weaves family history and an introduction to historic Catholic mystics into a tale of her recovery from illness when she journeys from snowbound Iowa to the desert of New Mexico as a visiting professor. She meets two "everyday mystics"-a Russian Orthodox priest named Father Sergei, whose theology has a discernible Buddhist accent, and a Hispanic herbal healer named Lu. Both tend to her body and soul as they help her to recover. The author writes movingly and keenly about the death of her mother from cancer, and her details of landscape and situation are lively in their particularity: a yapping pack of Chihuahuas, the lusty zucchini growing in Father Sergei's garden. Swander's language of faith is more hesitant as she searches for its embodiment in her lived experience. The timeless Christian allegory of pilgrimage to belief is freshly rendered. This poet-pilgrim joins a literary tradition of others before her who journeyed through the dark nights of doubt to the convinced light of faith. This is a beautifully written book.
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Beautifully written... a cross between Kathleen Norris and Carlos Castaneda. -- Publishers Weekly
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This nonfiction memoir of a chronically ill poet who rediscovers her Catholic faith and perceives its healing power reads like a cross between Kathleen Norris and Carlos Castaneda. Swander, an Iowa poet who developed a paralyzing neurological condition when her car was hit by a drunk driver, weaves family history and an introduction to historic Catholic mystics into a tale of her recovery from illness when she journeys from snowbound Iowa to the desert of New Mexico as a visiting professor. She meets two "everyday mystics"-a Russian Orthodox priest named Father Sergei, whose theology has a discernible Buddhist accent, and a Hispanic herbal healer named Lu. Both tend to her body and soul as they help her to recover. The author writes movingly and keenly about the death of her mother from cancer, and her details of landscape and situation are lively in their particularity: a yapping pack of Chihuahuas, the lusty zucchini growing in Father Sergei's garden. Swander's language of faith is more hesitant as she searches for its embodiment in her lived experience. The timeless Christian allegory of pilgrimage to belief is freshly rendered. This poet-pilgrim joins a literary tradition of others before her who journeyed through the dark nights of doubt to the convinced light of faith. This is a beautifully written book.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Beautifully written... a cross between Kathleen Norris and Carlos Castaneda. -- Publishers Weekly
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I stand near the back of the nave of Father Sergei's church, my eyes fixed on the two nuns bowing and chanting at a lectern near the wall, their black veils drawn down to their eyebrows, the room dark and hazy from the incense rising up in the air. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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I stand near the back of the nave of Father Sergei's church, my eyes fixed on the two nuns bowing and chanting at a lectern near the wall, their black veils drawn down to their eyebrows, the room dark and hazy from the incense rising up in the air. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Father Sergei, New Mexico, Teresa of Avila, Virgin Mary, Blue Top, South Valley, Rio Grande, Christopher Columbus, John of the Cross, Mary Magdalene, Russian Orthodox, Central Avenue, Jacoba Felicie, Jeanne de Chantal, United States, Francis of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, Juan Sanchez, Middle Ages, Sandia Mountains New!
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- Francis and Clare: The Complete Works (The Classics of Western Spirituality) by Regis J. Armstrong in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Divine Office (Divine Prayer) by The Grail Psalms on page 282, and page 283
- The Way of Perfection by Teresa Of Avila on page 205, and page 208
- Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila on page 205, and page 208
- The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross by Saint John of the Cross in Back Matter
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