A leading poet discusses the role of poetry in creating narrative in a series of powerful, informative essays--including 'Where Poems Take Place,' 'A Shared Humanity,' and 'The Primal Storyteller'--about the capacity of poetry to tell stories. Simultaneous. (view table of contents)

Product Description: “To read this book is to be reminded of how many major poems have their root in prayer.”—Grace Schulman“The thirty prose poems that make up Epistles are as compellingly modern in their form as they are timeless in their quest for spiritual truths amid radical doubts...read more

Product Description: “To read this book is to be reminded of how many major poems have their root in prayer.”—Grace Schulman“The thirty prose poems that make up Epistles are as compellingly modern in their form as they are timeless in their quest for spiritual truths amid radical doubts...read more

Book by Jarman, Mark

Product Description: Poetry. "At one level, these are poems of Fresno. They surprise the reader into seeing how a superb, various art has emerged from one part of California. They revel in the actual. They show the tract homes, the fruit orchards, the farms, the scalding summers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Book by Jarman, Mark

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Product Description: Book by Jarman, Mark, McDowell, Robert

Collects poems by young poets 'rebelling' against the then rebellious poetry of the 1960s and 1970s with a return to measured speech, even rhyme, and the power of narrative

Product Description: Book by Jarman, Mark

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Poetry and religion meet in this collection of poetry that tests the doctrines and language of American Christianity against contemporary experience. Simultaneous.

Unholy Sonnets is the author's seventh collection of poetry, his first since the celebrated Questions for Ecclesiastes, which confirmed Mark Jarman's emergence as a major American poet. Following up on the memorable sequence of "Unholy Sonnets," Questions for Ecclesiastes, creates an entire book that inverts John Donne's asking of God, "Are You there, and do You hear?"Unholy Sonnets continues the work Jarman began in Questions for Ecclesiastes. This new series of poems strives to create devotional poetry written against the grain, without assumptions about faith or shared belief. That is why these sonnets are called "unholy." They aim to avoid piety, while also testing the limits and conventions of the sonnet form.Taking off from the series of sonnets in Questions for Ecclesiastes, Unholy Sonnets explores more fully the relationship between what the soul desires and what creation allows. These new poems investigate the nature of prayer, incarnation, judgement, and grace, while trying to imagine a God large enough to hold the universe and personal enough to care about individual yearning and gratitude, suffering, and joy. (view table of contents)