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Between Heaven and Earth: (poems) Paperback – December 4, 2017

by Kelly Chripczuk (Author)

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From the author of "Chicken Scratch: Stories of Love, Risk, & Poultry" comes a new book of poems: "Between Heaven and Earth."

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 4, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 106 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1979556784
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1979556781
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.22 x 9.02 inches

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Jody L. Collins

Practical Poetry for Everyone

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 11, 2017

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"The wood is slow/to burn this morning,/reluctant and stubborn./Leaning into the stove's/metal mouth, I draw/deep breaths and/exhale with force,/keeping steady rhythm." -Coaxing the Fire
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If you've ever felt like poetry was inaccessible or hard to understand, Kelly Chripczuk is here to change your mind. Whether it's a verse or three about tending to croupy children in the middle of the night, building a fire in the woodstove or the chickens cavorting (yes!) Chripczuk's words sneak in with a gentle, beautiful punch.
"Between Heaven and Earth" is just that--poetry that is earthly, heavenly and in between. Wrapping words around the every day, she manages to take the reader's breath away with her lines about both the mundane and the divine. I think she's better at watching for miracles and mystery than I am--her poetry helps me see.

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Loved the Poems!

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A wonderful collection of poems about faith and how it intersects with reality. Highly recommended!

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Reflecting our tensions, realties and hopes in simply yet profound ways

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 5, 2017

If you have faith, if faith in God has become part of your waking (and sleeping) life, you become aware of a conundrum. You are not yet a citizen of heaven, but you are also no longer a citizen of earth, what the Bible refers to as being in this world but not of it. In a very real sense, you are “between,” tied to one, longing for the other, but living between.

That’s the idea that keeps recurring as I read “Between Heaven and Earth: Poems” by Kelly Chripczuk. Chripczuk wears many hats – mother, spiritual director, pastor, wife, writer, and poet. She knows what it means to be “between” all those hats, and usually wearing most of them simultaneously. What do her poems tell us about living, longing, and what lies in between?

Quite a lot, as it turns out.

Chripczuk divides her 45 poems in the collection by roughly but not exactly thirds. The “heaven poems” are based on Bible passages, many of them written, she says, as part of her sermon preparation process. (I identify here; I take sermon notes in the form of rough drafts of poems.)

The “earth” poems are based in the experiences of real life, and are further divided by the seasons of fall, winter, spring, and summer. They include reflections in origami, work, grandma’s chickadees, the arrival of spring, wet wood, and more. But just became they are “earth” poems doesn’t mean they lack a spiritual dimension, just as earthly life for a believer doesn’t lack spiritual dimensions. Consider “Advent,” one of the winter poems.

Advent

The cat comes in
through the window after
his morning jaunt. Fresh air
clings to his mane, and I
bury my face in the fluff
around his neck.

I believe this is also
how Christ comes
into our midst – soft
and sudden, squeezing
in among us, smelling
of earth and grass
and morning frost.

The “between” poems are exactly that, contemplations of the space we live between heaven and earth. This space is no less real than what’s covered in the “earth” poems, and it’s no less spiritual than what Chripczuk covers in the “heaven” poems. It is where we believers find ourselves, living between heaven and earth, trying to make sense of both, trying to guide ourselves and our loved ones toward an understanding of both.

The poems of “Between Heaven and Earth” reflect our tensions, our realities, and our hopes in simple yet profound ways.

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Laura Brown

Poems made of common work and uncommon stillness

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 15, 2017

At the beginning of her poem "The Center," Kelly Chripczuk asks,

You don’t hold the center,
it holds you. Do you see
the difference?

The poems in her new book "Between Heaven and Earth" are made of common work: building fires in the stove every cold morning; caring for children with nosebleeds and other late-night needs; stripping death from last year's flowerbeds. They are made of memories of a grandmother who took her to church, fed the chickadees and kept a shotgun by the door to discourage the bluejays. They are made of joy and sadness, grief and hope, and thinking in the dark. Mostly, they are made of watching, waiting and listening, for the ways the words of the Bible speak into a common life. They are steeped in stillness, and reading them just might produce that effect in the reader.

As she says in the end of "The Word May Come":

You will know, again,
the way. All that remains
is to walk in it.

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Lisa Deam

Kelly Chripczuk's beautiful poems help us navigate this in between space

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 9, 2018

As people of faith, we live in a space that’s betwixt and between — we’re not fully of earth, and we’re definitely not yet in heaven. Kelly Chripczuk's beautiful poems help us navigate this in-between space, where all the hard things and the beautiful things happen.

One of my favorite poems in the book is “Origami,” which begins:

"I slide carefully crafted prayers
under heaven's door -
reasonable requests plainly scrawled
on flat, white sheets of paper.
These, God takes and turns,
fold by fold, into something new."

Get Kelly’s book and read the rest of the poem to see the resolution. :)

Then be sure to read all the other poems about God meeting us in the in-between spaces. Your heart will be happy you did.

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Lisa Bartelt

Soul-stirring poetry that moved me to contemplation

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 5, 2017

Kelly has a way of taking the ordinary events of life, the familiar Bible stories, and giving them a fresh expression in poem form. I was moved to contemplation after reading each one, and I look forward to making this a regular practice--the reading of poetry and holding it for a few moments beyond the reading. These poems are soul-stirring, uplifting, and prayerful--a beautiful combination. (While I did read an advance copy of the book from the author, my opinion reflected her is my honest one.) If you are new to poetry or returning to it again after a time, Between Heaven and Earth is a good place to start.

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... with an Advanced Reader Copy that allowed me to enjoy some of the Advent poems during their appropriate season

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 11, 2017

I was blessed with an Advanced Reader Copy that allowed me to enjoy some of the Advent poems during their appropriate season. Kelly is marvelous at bringing to light the mundane and miracles that happen around us and in the Bible. I highly recommend this small book of poems for contemplation and celebrating the advent season!

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