Smaller Than God

by Quenon, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780887533570
• ISBN10: 0887533574
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Black Moss Pr

Summary

Within the covers of Smaller Than God: words of spiritual longing, readers will find what we don't often come to expect from works of spiritual contemplation. These poems and prose pieces are rich in irony, full of mischief and celebratory works with a deep sense of play. Smaller Than God is anything but solemn. These works take us to sky church where heaven begins on the ground and we find the possibility of the spiritual atheist as friend to the devout believer. This book will include a previously unpublished posthumous poem by the famous Trappist monk, Thomas Merton. There is also new work by much-celebrated and well-established authors Margaret Avison and James Reaney, as well as work of younger upcoming and exciting new voices.

Author Biography

Smaller Than God is the sixth anthology selected and edited by John B. Lee who is fast becoming in the words of Penn Kemp, "one of Canada's premier anthologists." His collaborator on the Smaller Than God project is Brother Paul Quenon, a trappist monk from Gethsemani, Kentucky. He is a much celebrated poet and photographer, and the editor and author of the perennially popular book, Holy Folly.

Table of Contents

Confessions (One)	11	(1)
Degan Davis
A Legend	11	(2)
Thomas Merton
Going Home	13	(1)
Marty Gervais
I Waft	14	(1)
Lea Harper
Go, Gather Up the Love	15	(1)
Robert Priest
Sharing in Divinity	16	(1)
Michael J. Wilson
A Meditation Between Claims	17	(1)
Robyn Sarah
Landlord Lamentations	18	(1)
Dale Ritterbusch
Advent Carols	19	(1)
Frank Pool
Night Gone the Shadow of God	20	(2)
John B. Lee
Poem for the Crew of the Kursk	22	(1)
Erin Noteboom
Taking the Blame	23	(1)
Robert Wynne
With the Heater on	23	(1)
Robert Hilles
Death of the Black Cat	23	(4)
Bruce Hunter
The Gift	27	(2)
Dianne Aprile
Reversing a Crater	29	(4)
Margaret Avison
Slesta	33	(1)
George Whipple
Paying Attention	33	(2)
John B. Lee
Crossing The Winter Fields	35	(1)
James Deahl
Finding the Church	36	(1)
Tony Cosier
Ernesto Cardenal	36	(1)
If Death Hovers Anywhere	37	(1)
Grace Butcher
Names of Yahweh	38	(1)
Marianne Bluger
Winterized Steven	38	(1)
Michael Berzensky
desire for a different blue	39	(1)
Julie Berry
Clothesline sonnet	39	(1)
Roger Bell
``Thanksgiving''	40	(1)
James Arthur
Unexpected beauty	41	(1)
Roger Bell
earth remembers	42	(1)
Julie Berry
Poem for a Winter's Night	43	(1)
Robert Currie
Paths	43	(1)
Laurie Smith
If I Were But a River Watching	43	(4)
John B. Lee
Ode To The Letter P	47	(2)
Richard E. Sherwin
An Island Where Evening Never Comes	49	(1)
Liliana Ursu
Hymn of the Harrows	50	(1)
Psalm 139	50	(2)
Paul Quenon
Ned Rosebaum
A Psalm of Praise	52	(1)
Jeff Seffinga
Psalm	53	(1)
Marilyn Gear Pilling
Pater Ignatius	54	(2)
Marianne Micros
God Forbid	56	(1)
Bob Hill
Prayerful lies	57	(1)
Marty Gervais
the singing	58	(1)
Misha Felgin
The Blue Oats	59	(1)
Prayer On Leaving The Body	60	(2)
James Deahl
Ernesto Cardenal	61	(1)
Just Before Christmas	62	(1)
Barry Butson
Grace	63	(1)
Marianne Bluger
In the Chapel	64	(1)
Bernadette Dieker
Flight	64	(1)
Liliana Ursu
Varieties of Religious Experience	65	(5)
Peter Stevens
A Blessing	70	(5)
Michael Henson
Theologians Never Ask the Obvious	75	(1)
Robert Wynne
Adam's Rib	75	(2)
Robert Hilles
Faith, 1998	77	(1)
Barry Dempster
Christ is the Kind of Guy	78	(2)
Robert Priest
Department Store Jesus	80	(2)
James Reaney
Last Suppers in Texas	82	(1)
Linda Frank
Prime Mover	83	(1)
Maurice Manning
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico	84	(1)
Dorothy Mahoney
The Chair of Angels	85	(2)
John B. Lee
Reading Revelation	87	(1)
Sarah Klassen
He Couldn't Fix The Tractor	88	(2)
Marty Gervais
the word	90	(1)
Misha Felgin
Poor Man's Heaven	91	(2)
Steven Michael Berzensky
Small Martyrdoms	93	(2)
Rienzi Crusz
Perhaps Marty	95	(1)
Roger Bell
Ernesto Cardenal	95	(1)
Tides	95	(4)
Nelson Ball
God is in the Cracks	99	(1)
Robert Sward
Acolytes	100	(1)
Dale Ritterbusch
Bones of Desire	100	(3)
Paul Quenon
The Christ of Velazquez	103	(1)
Miguel de Unamuno
Funeral	104	(1)
Al Purdy
Getting Close to God	105	(1)
Robert Priest
The Farmers' Chapel	106	(3)
Marty Gervais
Soul Purification	109	(1)
William Robertson
Something More Miraculous	110	(1)
Don Gutteridge
The Rapture	110	(2)
Lea Harper
Chosen People	112	(1)
Jeff Seffinga
Herzliyah Pituah	113	(3)
Richard E. Sherwin
At the Support Group for Non-Believers	116	(1)
Robert Wynne
The Agnostic's Villanelle	117	(1)
Marilyn Taylor
Confessions (Two)	118
Degan Davis