Amounting to Nothing: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781640602014)

After 60 years at Gethsemani Abbey, Br. Paul follows up his recent memoir, In Praise of the Useless Life, with a poetic collection that shows how to do just that - by writing poetry.

Amounting to Nothing is both practical and metaphysical, a puzzling over the ultimate things of life, and a descending on the Benedictine ladder of humility to the earthly creatures surrounding a Kentucky monastery. This is less an exploration in self-knowledge than a forgetting of self in the wonders of everything. Quenon treads bare footed on the margins of mortality and immortality, with wit, thought, and hope.


Author: Paul Quenon
ISBN-10: 1640602011
ISBN-13: 9781640602014
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2019
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d