{"product_id":"forty-days-in-the-wilderness-megan-muthupandiyan-9781646626052","title":"Forty Days In the Wilderness, Wandering","description":"\u003cp\u003eMapping moments of deep attention and wonder, \u003cem\u003eForty Days in the Wilderness, Wandering \u003c\/em\u003einvites its readers to contemplate the natural world, sacred wilderness, and devotional wandering through the 2020 Lenten season and the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLargely composed in conjunction with walks through Wisconsin's national forests and state parks, the collection began as a Lenten intention - a creative response to Muthupandiyan's desire to find the divine in a world that has largely destroyed wilderness - the natural places which, within many religious traditions, devotional wandering has historically occurred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeveral days into the project, however, the themes of wilderness and devotional wandering took on new depth and urgency while the COVID-19 pandemic took hold and the world began collectively negotiating its way through various spiritual, emotional, and physical deserts of solitude, bewilderment, alienation, and fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of the poems and illustrations included within this collection was written and drawn during the first forty-five days of quarantine. The collection serves as a writer's journal on the deep wilderness and profound time of spiritual formation that humanity entered as the pandemic took hold. Read together, they chart a poetic apogee from joy to grief, exultation to death, desire to love without hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoems and illustrations from this collection have also appeared in \u003cem\u003eChitro Magazine \u003c\/em\u003eand the anthology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSheltering With Poems: Community and Connection During Covid \u003c\/em\u003e(Bent Paddle Press)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Megan Muthupandiyan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646626052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646626052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d","brand":"Megan Muthupandiyan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996586574079,"sku":"9781646626052","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dbac816d-a4e1-446b-bf03-fa33cbbc2055.jpg?v=1683342543","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/forty-days-in-the-wilderness-megan-muthupandiyan-9781646626052","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}