Songs from the Depths (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781950186259)

From the Foreword, by Dennis Patrick Slattery

"As I read Beth Anne Boardman's insightful meditative poems in this new volume, I could not help but think of the relation between poetry and prayer. All of the poems she includes carry a prayerful tone and depth.

Prayer, like poetry, is an act of imagination; the former contains or harbors a form of poiesis, a Greek word that suggests a making or forming or shaping something into a coherent form. One cannot help but sense Beth's struggles and achievements as she negotiates that narrow gap between poetry and prayer, if indeed there is a gap at all. . . . Her poems are continual surprises at life's uncertainties bumping up against life's claimed securities. In the tension between these two is the ellipses of life . . . where we are asked to fill in what we live and how we live it. Her poems are fine and lasting guides to such a meditative place of prayer."

Author: Dennis Patrick Slattery, Beth Anne Boardman
ISBN-10: 1950186253
ISBN-13: 9781950186259
Publisher: Mandorla Books
Language: English
Published: 09/28/2020
Pages: 134
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.29d