I Could Name God in Twelve Ways : Essays / Karen Salyer McElmurray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McElmurray, Karen Salyer, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, American--Biography.

Women authors, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2024]

Summary:

I could dream in poetry, could summon words for spiritual experience, could name God in twelve ways and in ten times and places in history. Award-winning writer Karen Salyer McElmurray details her life's journey across continents and decades in a poetic collection that is equal parts essay-as-memoir, memoir-as- Künstlerroman, and travelogue-as-meditation. It is about the deserts of India. A hospital ward in Maryland. The blue seas of Greece. A greenhouse in Virginia. It is about the spirit houses of Thailand. The mountains of eastern Kentucky. The depths of the Grand Canyon. A creative writing classroom in Georgia. An attic in a generations-old house. It is about coming to terms with both memory and the power of writing itself. At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, McElmurray probes her personal history from the stance of different places, perspectives, and vulnerabilities as she tenderly and fiercely searches for acceptance and a place to call home.

Contents:

Cover

Praise for I Could Name God in Twelve Ways

Title Page

Copyright

Dedicaiton

Contents

Prologue

Blue Glass

The Roads She's Traveled

Now and Then

And Then the Holy River

Supplication

Stella, in the Upstairs Room

Vertige

The Land Between

How Souls Travel

We Were All Something Once

Animals

Leaving

Spirit House

Acknowledgments

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781985900660

OCLC:

1449623520