Cries of the Spirit: Celebration of Women's Spirituality - Couverture souple

Sewell, Marilyn, Ed.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807068136 ISBN 13 : 9780807068137

Editeur : Boston : Beacon Press, 1992

Synopsis

Gathers readings, poems and prose by women, includes works by Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joyce Carol Oates and others Amazon.com description: Product Description: Edited by best-selling author Marilyn Sewell, this rich and diverse anthology of more than 300 poems celebrates the sacredness of women`s lives: the experiences that shape them, the relationships that sustain them, and the legacy that they build. In these poems, woman grow old, defy conventions and limits, fall in love and out again, wonder at their own bodies, and sing of the earth and sky. They pray, give birth, and make sense of suffering. As Sewell explains, Those who write these verses do so out of exquisite courage...... They show us how to live.""

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation, sexual intimacy, and childbirth to caretaking, household rituals, and death. These writings represent a healing vision of the sacred that emerges from the particular consciousness of women-a vision that partakes of the world of earth and flesh.
With contributions by Maya Angelou, Julia Alvarez, Margaret Atwood, Hildegard of Bingen, Lucille Clifton, Annie Dillard, Joy Harjo, Erica Jong, Denise Levertov, Audre Lorde, Kathleen Norris, Marge Piercy, Starhawk, Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, and others.

Revue de presse :

Marilyn Sewell has done us all a great service to gather together these voices, some new, some forgotten, all precious resources. The collection, together with Sewell's deeply insightful introduction, traces the spirit in all its dimensions and diversity, expanding our idea of the spiritual impulse. -Susan Griffin, author of Bending Home

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Boston : Beacon Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0807068136
• ISBN 13: 9780807068137
• Reliure: Broché