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A fire to light our tongues : Texas writers on spirituality / Elizabeth Joan Dell and Donna Walker-Nixon, editors ; with Rachel Crawford, poetry editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Texas--21st century.
- American literature.
- Spirituality--Literary collections.
- Spirituality.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 269 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality brings together the works of writers in Texas. The title is taken, with permission, from Naomi Shihab Nye's introduction to Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, where she states the role of poetry serves as "a fire to light our tongues." This view describes the role that creative writers, encountering the challenges of this past decade, face as they grapple with shifting views of spirituality. While the project started before COVID-19, given the current worldwide pandemic, a book of creative work responding to writers' spirituality could not be more timely. This anthology offers readers creative works by Texas writers as they wrestle with evolving systems of belief or nonbelief"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Pandemic Time
- The New Cartography / Julia Guez
- Treasures Within the Temple / LiAundra Grace
- The Road Between San Antonio and Comstock Texas / Naomi Shihab Nye
- [Through plaster walls I hear the wailing] / Octavio Quintanilla
- Memos from Afar / Robin Bradford
- In This Way / Kevin Prufer
- Still Life When All Our Symptoms Seem to Have Symptoms of Their Own / Julia Guez
- House. Church / Jill Alexander Essbaum
- Contraries: Belief and doubt
- Tender Interior / Christian Wiman
- Even Sound Hides Its Face / Robert Okaji
- Beginning to Shape / Ulf Kirchdorfer
- Jesus Likes to Hang Out on the San Juan Water Tower / Charles McGregor
- Grace, 1982 / Octavio Quintanilla
- Texas, Out Driving / Naomi Shihab Nye
- El Cuarto de los Milagros / Diana Lopez
- The Pilot / Mary Helen Specht
- Kafir 1 / Tarfia Faizullah
- Kafir 2 / Tarfia Faizullah
- Magdalen / Angelique Jamail
- GOOD AND EVIL
- When I Heard the Learn d Astronomer / Chaitali Sen
- Five Snapshots of Jarrell, Texas, May 27, 1997 / Al Haley
- God's Hands / Octavio Quintanilla
- A Jew at the Airport / Rich Levy
- Sinful / Rich Levy
- Witnesses / Steve Weathers
- On Forgiving / Leslie Jill Patterson
- Trew Reade: A Reporters Story / A. G. Mojtabai
- The Border / Bruce Bond
- Baptism / M. M. De Voe
- Small Town Agnostics Prayer / J. Scott Brownlee
- Dog Star / J. Scott Brownlee
- Made in Nigeria / Jessica Wilbanks
- LOVE AND HOPE
- Pagans / Rick Bass
- Kindred Spirit / Rich Levy
- Psalm 2 / Octavio Quintanilla
- An Old Lady Hunting Treasure / Peter Hoheisel
- Homing In / Monica Macansantos
- Christmas House, Vallejo, California / Monica Macansantos
- When You Ask Me If I Believe / Robin Gara
- Shoulders / Naomi Shihab Nye
- Wading in the Water of the Trinity River: A Womanist Perspective / Yvette R. Blair-Lavallais
- KNOWN AND UNKNOWN
- The Martyrs of Mountain Peak / Owen Egerton
- Smith Canyon / Noel Crook
- Calf / Chris Ellery
- The Ghosts on Farm Road / Mark Sanders
- La Grange / Robert Okaji
- A Stockyard Liturgy / D. G. Geis
- Lazarus Alive / William Virgil Davis
- Lighthouse, Port Isabel / Carol Coffee Reposa
- The Window / Brian Van Reet
- Credo / John Fry
- To get there / John Fry
- Way-Seeding / Nan Cuba
- The Black Madonna of Czestochowa / Robin Davidson
- TRUTH AND BEAUTY
- West Tvlews from the Little Bend of South View / Jim LaVilla-Havelin
- Bluebonnet Sutra / Laurence Musgrove
- Taking on the Big One / Charles Taylor
- At the Heart of the Heart / Charles Taylor
- Call It a Kind of Grace / Steve Wilson
- Grandfathers Heaven / Naomi Shihab Nye
- Novel Excerpt from Blood Money / Gary T. McDonald
- A Frontiers Passing / Heath Dollar
- Delayed Baggage, Oswiecim, 2004 / Robin Davidson
- And Finally the Tragedy / Blake Kimzey
- JOY AND GRATITUDE
- Honest Gospel Singing / Greg Brownderville
- Female Energy along the Camino That Is Life / Norma Elia Cantu
- Of the Beginning / Loretta Diane Walker
- Sacrifice / Loretta Diane Walker
- Epiphany / Angelique Jamail
- Thank You Very Much / Ursula Pike
- The Trail / John Blair
- Guns and Hard Candy / Robert Flynn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fire to light our tongues.
- ISBN:
- 9780875658056
- 0875658059
- OCLC:
- 1286800375
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