Foreword / by Philip Zaleski -- Introduction / by Billy Collins -- Starting out from Ted Hughes Letters / Coleman Barks -- The return / Rick Bass -- Words of nectar and cyanide / Joseph Bottum -- Words are not enough / Alice Lok Cahana -- A mindful beauty / Joel E. Cohen -- Czeslaw Milosz's glasses / Robert Cording -- Turning points / Paul J. Griffiths -- Sesshin with Sasaki Roshi / Michael Haederle -- Barley and yaks / Edward Hoagland -- Taking the veil / Nancy Honicker -- Buddha's savage peace / Robert D. Kaplan -- Let me people go to the buffet / Jesse Kellerman -- Who am I, Lord, that You should know my name? / Bruce Lawrie -- 1934 / Philip Levine -- An intimate geography / Barry Lopez -- Sisters & daughters / Robert Miola -- We and you--let us meet in God's love / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- The contemplative life / Marilyn Nelson -- Pigs (see swine) / Melissa Range -- Bleecker Street / Philip Schultz -- Scordatura : upon listening to Biber's rosary sonatas / Anita Sullivan -- Believing in Flannery O'Connor / Terry Teachout -- Trismegistus / Richard Wilbur -- Christianity face to face with Islam / Robert Louis Wilken -- Ian's angels / Nancy Willard -- The foundation / C.K. Williams -- My bright abyss / Christian Wiman -- The shul at Loon Lake / Ruth R. Wisse -- What art can and can't do / Philip Yancey -- Contributors' notes -- Other notable spiritual writing of the year.
Summary:
Presents a collection of essays, articles, and poems from a variety of religious and spiritual traditions, including the writings of Rick Bass, Nancy Honicker, Philip Levine, and Marilyn Nelson.
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