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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Readers of Zaleski's anthologies will be glad to know that, after a yearlong hiatus, his spirituality series has found a new home with Houghton Mifflin's Best American books. This sixth volume follows the expected format: some 25 essays and 10 poems that, according to the introduction, "address the eternal oppositions of good and evil, virtue and vice, creation and destruction; the sorrows and exaltations of heart, mind, and soul; the ceaseless quest for God." With approaches ranging from Seyyed Hossein Nasr's philosophical argument for the primacy of consciousness to Mark Doty's ecstatic vision of "fire [calling] its double down," the collection includes household names like Natalie Goldberg and Oliver Sacks alongside newer authors. Bus driver Robin Cody, for example, pays touching tribute to "birth-damaged or world-beaten children," and memoirist Lindsey Crittenden describes depression, death, her mother and the kind of prayer that is "pure throw of yourself into the unknown." Welcoming varied perspectives, Zaleski includes David Gelernter's summary of Judaism as well as a sprinkling of overt Buddhists and Christians, though most selections transcend religious categories. A large number, like David James Duncan's "Earth Music" and Allen Hoey's "Essay on Snow," focus on the natural world, while some, like B.K. Loren's "Word Hoard," resist classification. With few misses and many hits, the collection is a thought-provoking and often poignant read.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
As far as editor Zaleski is concerned, spiritual writing must first be good writing, "aiming always for lucidity of thought and beauty of expression," and then it must show the writer concerned with becoming "more, better, truer, clearer, more open." Those criteria are consistently met by the selections in the fourth edition of this treasurable series. The range of immediate subjects under consideration is gratifyingly broad. David Gelernter's bracing "Judaism beyond Words" argues Jewish distinctives with tremendous forcefulness. Lindsey Crittenden's account of her prayer life, early and late, gains cogent accessibility by being couched in recollections of her rather waspish mother. Bill McKibben gets us thinking about the spiritual implications of "Designer Genes," and Peter Friederici illuminates the inner and outer selves of us all via the astonishing "Fifteen Ways of Seeing the Light." Patricia Monaghan's "Physics and Grief" offers moving personal testimony and scientific reason to believe in afterlife--and lives prior, parallel, and other, as well. Other very impressive contributors include Oliver Sacks, Joseph Epstein, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Ray Olson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Readers of Zaleski's anthologies will be glad to know that, after a yearlong hiatus, his spirituality series has found a new home with Houghton Mifflin's Best American books. This sixth volume follows the expected format: some 25 essays and 10 poems that, according to the introduction, "address the eternal oppositions of good and evil, virtue and vice, creation and destruction; the sorrows and exaltations of heart, mind, and soul; the ceaseless quest for God." With approaches ranging from Seyyed Hossein Nasr's philosophical argument for the primacy of consciousness to Mark Doty's ecstatic vision of "fire [calling] its double down," the collection includes household names like Natalie Goldberg and Oliver Sacks alongside newer authors. Bus driver Robin Cody, for example, pays touching tribute to "birth-damaged or world-beaten children," and memoirist Lindsey Crittenden describes depression, death, her mother and the kind of prayer that is "pure throw of yourself into the unknown." Welcoming varied perspectives, Zaleski includes David Gelernter's summary of Judaism as well as a sprinkling of overt Buddhists and Christians, though most selections transcend religious categories. A large number, like David James Duncan's "Earth Music" and Allen Hoey's "Essay on Snow," focus on the natural world, while some, like B.K. Loren's "Word Hoard," resist classification. With few misses and many hits, the collection is a thought-provoking and often poignant read.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
As far as editor Zaleski is concerned, spiritual writing must first be good writing, "aiming always for lucidity of thought and beauty of expression," and then it must show the writer concerned with becoming "more, better, truer, clearer, more open." Those criteria are consistently met by the selections in the fourth edition of this treasurable series. The range of immediate subjects under consideration is gratifyingly broad. David Gelernter's bracing "Judaism beyond Words" argues Jewish distinctives with tremendous forcefulness. Lindsey Crittenden's account of her prayer life, early and late, gains cogent accessibility by being couched in recollections of her rather waspish mother. Bill McKibben gets us thinking about the spiritual implications of "Designer Genes," and Peter Friederici illuminates the inner and outer selves of us all via the astonishing "Fifteen Ways of Seeing the Light." Patricia Monaghan's "Physics and Grief" offers moving personal testimony and scientific reason to believe in afterlife--and lives prior, parallel, and other, as well. Other very impressive contributors include Oliver Sacks, Joseph Epstein, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Ray Olson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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