Paper Cathedrals : Poems

by Creech, Morri

• ISBN13: 9780873387163
• ISBN10: 0873387163
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

Author Biography

Morri Creech is assistant professor in the Department of Languages at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. His poems have been published in the Sewanee Review, Missouri Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry, Laurel Review, Southern Review, Literary Review, and Critical Quarterly. He has received many honors and prizes, including the 1999 Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship, the 1997 Ruth Lilly Fellowship for Young Poets, and a 1998 Pushcart Prize nomination.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword	x
Li-Young Lee
I
Honey and John the Baptist	3	(2)
Engine Work	5	(1)
Distillation	6	(2)
Dogwood	8	(2)
Night Blooming Cereus	10	(1)
Engine Work: Variations	11	(2)
Venacular	13	(2)
A Parable of the Body	15	(1)
Summer Birds	16	(1)
landscape of Heaven	17	(1)
Charles Darwin and the Theology of Natural Science	18	(1)
Static Narrative: Lake Marion Photograph, Late Summer	19	(1)
Parable of the Trees	20	(2)
Snakebite	22	(1)
Testament	23	(1)
Chesapeake Revelation, 1786	24	(21)
II
The Testament of Judas
The World Made Flesh	30	(1)
Rites of Servitude	31	(1)
The Long Journey	32	(1)
The Miracle at Cana	33	(1)
A Parable	34	(1)
In the House of the Lord	35	(1)
After Lazarus	36	(1)
Approaching the Kingdom	37	(1)
At Jerusalem	38	(1)
The Lord's Supper	39	(1)
Gethsemene	40	(2)
Coda: The Body of Judas	42	(3)
III
Prayer to My Living Father	45	(1)
Broken Glass	46	(2)
The Garden inSolitude	48	(2)
Provision	50	(1)
Driftwood Table	51	(1)
The Room Reserved for Judas	52	(1)
Photograph: The Geese	53	(1)
The Gardener	54	(1)
Triptych: Christ's Sermon to God from the Wilderness	55	(3)
The Heaven of Memory	58	(1)
The Judas Tree	59	(1)
On the Nature Starlings	60	(2)
The Pilgrimage of Lazarus	62