Practical Gods
10 best books like Practical Gods (Carl Dennis): There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, Metaphysical Dog, Wade in the Water: Poems, Life on Mars, Native Guard, Incarnadine: Poems, Failure, My Love Is A Dead Arctic Explorer, Repair, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
| Author | Morgan Parker |
| ISBN | 1941040535 |
| Author | Frank Bidart |
| ISBN | 0374173613 |
In “Those Nights,” Frank Bidart writes: “We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not.” Words and sex, art and flesh: In Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The...
Wade in the Water: Poems
| Author | Tracy K. Smith |
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States Even the men in black armor, the ones
Jangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they...
Life on Mars
| Author | Tracy K. Smith |
| ISBN | 1555975844 |
To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What
Would your life say if it could talk?
—from...
| Author | Natasha Trethewey |
| ISBN | 0618872655 |
| Author | Mary Szybist |
| ISBN | 1555976352 |
knew how to burn themselves through,
how to make themselves shrines to their own longing.
The spectacular was never behind them.
-from “The Troubadours etc.”
In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly...
| Author | Philip Schultz |
| ISBN | 0151015260 |
When I picked up Schultz's failure, I didn't...
| Author | Paige Ackerson-Kiely |
| ISBN | 1934103276 |
| Author | C.K. Williams |
| ISBN | 0374527067 |
"Always, "These gigantic inconceivables."
Always, "What will have been done to me?"
And so we don our mental armor,
flex, thrill, pay the strict attention we always knew we should.
A violent...
| Author | David Ferry |
| ISBN | 0226244881 |
To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take...
The Power of Love: Sermons, Reflections, and Wisdom to Uplift and Inspire
| Author | Michael B. Curry |
| ISBN | 0525542892 |
--Bishop Michael Curry
Two billion people watched Bishop Michael Curry deliver his sermon on the redemptive...
Be With
| Author | Forrest Gander |
| ISBN | 0811226050 |
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Book of 2018
Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical...
Of Earth
| Author | John Daniel |
| ISBN | 0983997594 |
At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0807007005 |
Mary Oliver has published...
Ozone Journal
| Author | Peter Balakian |
Bach’s cantata in B-flat minor in the cassette,
we lounged under the greenhouse-sky, the UVBs hacking
at the acids and oxides and then I could hear the difference
between an oboe and a bassoon
at the river’s edge under cover—
trees...
Divine Impassibility: Four Views of God's Emotions and Suffering
| Author | Robert J. Matz |
| ISBN | 0830852530 |
How should we interpret passages of Scripture that seem to support one view or the other? And where does the incarnation and Christ's suffering on the cross fit into this?
This Spectrum Multiview volume brings together...
Erotic Poems
| Author | E.E. Cummings |
| ISBN | 0871406594 |
Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love that delight and provoke....
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
| Author | Amara Lakhous |
| ISBN | 1933372613 |
A small culturally mixed community living in an apartment building in the center of Rome is thrown into disarray when one of the neighbors is murdered. An investigation ensues and as each of the victim's neighbors is questioned, the reader...