The Grand Array

by Rogers, Pattiann

• ISBN13: 9781595341334
• ISBN10: 1595341331
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-21
• Publisher: Trinity University Press

Summary

The Grand Array is a stunning collection of 18 essays by widely acclaimed poet Pattiann Rogers. Written over a span of 25 years, in these essays Rogers daringly lays out the essential unity of science, spirituality, the arts, and our sensual experience of the physical world. With an anecdotal and lyrical style, Rogers celebrates human existence and questions many of our basic concepts about nature, God, and the importance of faith. Praised by everyone from Barry Lopez to Terry Tempest Williams, Rogers has an incredible perspective and finesse with which she weaves a magnificent tapestry of themes.

Author Biography

Pattiann Rogers is the author of more than 15 books of poetry and prose including Wayfare, Firekeeper, and Generations. She has been widely anthologized and published in magazines and journals including The New Yorker, Orion, The Paris Review, Wilderness, The New Republic, and many others.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
A Terrible Need	p. 3
Thoreau and Mothers	p. 8
Fury and Grace	p. 13
Places within Place	p. 16
Words in the Age of Stars	p. 19
The Great Plains	p. 33
This Nature	p. 37
Small and Insignificant, Mighty and Glorious	p. 42
What among Heavens and Suns	p. 50
Twentieth-Century Cosmology and the Soul's Habitation	p. 57
Rain	p. 77
Born, Again and Again	p. 84
"For Me Mothers and the Mothers of Mothers …ö	p. 88
Death and the Garden	p. 96
Cradle	p. 102
A Covenant with Divinity	p. 117
Surprised by the Sacred	p. 125
"I Hear and Behold God in Every Object, Yet Understand God Not in the Least"	p. 132
An Interview with Richard McCann	p. 139
Poems That Possess Me Like New Music in the Blood: An Interview with Brian Doyle	p. 167
Breaking Old Forms: A Conversation with Gordon Johnston	p. 186
Acknowledgments and Credits	p. 211
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