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Pruning Burning Bushes

Paperback |English |1620323303 | 9781620323304

Pruning Burning Bushes

Paperback |English |1620323303 | 9781620323304
Overview

Description: In pruning, a decision must be made whether to ""either slowly hollow, heartwood rotting outward, / or grow from green into a fiery blaze in autumn."" Pruning Burning Bushes is a collection of poems that explores the intersection of the natural and spiritual worlds with the personal and familial worlds. The book wrestles with this decision--to grow or to rot. Walking from the valley to the highest summit and back down into the depths of the canyon riverbed, the poems travel through the author's childhood filled with family and farm life, new marriage life, and subsequent miscarriages, the births of her children and deaths of relatives, and walking in the quiet waters of faith, sometimes raging and sometimes rejoicing. Endorsements: ""Wells has been granted--and she knows it--the grace to eat life right down to the seed, where the joy of the mystery lies, and the peace that passes understanding. Deft and inventive with strict form, with ambitious narrative, and with the poignant perspective that, when called for, comes of becoming a small child, Wells equally thrives on the merest simplisms of faith, on the densest meditation, and above all on her experience of full humanity, turning all to stunningly cogent advantage."" --Sydney Lea, author of Six Sundays Toward a Seventh ""Where Suburbans 'honk and veer' behind a neighbor's combine and Jesus walks into a bar to play pool with farmers, the poems of Sarah Wells study those juxtapositions of the urban and the rural, the wild and the agrarian which we live with in this country often without noticing. She notices and responds with the empathy of Theodore Roethke for the vulnerable non-human world and the visionary understanding of St. John of Patmos who knew a sign when he saw one. It is a pleasure to read a book of poetry dedicated to 'spirits reckless with praise and the need to be filled.'"" --Mark Jarman, author of Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems ""Sarah Wells's droll, evocative title perfectly fits her collection of poems, a series of 'double exposures' that superimpose the biblical on a background of rural Ohio. On that quilt-like ground, individual poems rich in the specifics of their time and place offer scenes from married life and motherhood, aging, and the process of accepting (but not erasing) inevitable losses . . . This is a book to savor, not in haste but slowly, so as to enjoy the unobtrusive rightness of the language, the mature but unjaded view of the human condition, the depth under the playfulness."" --Rhina P. Espaillat, author of Her Place in These Designs ""Pruning Burning Bushes balances Wells's spiritual life with humor; there's the bawdy life of carnivals and yet a true spiritual practice mixed harmoniously in. The personality of the author comes through attractively."" --Sandra McPherson, author of Expectation Days About the Contributor(s): Sarah M. Wells serves as the Administrative Director of the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University, where she is also Managing Editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and the Ashland Poetry Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in Alimentum, Ascent, Christianity & Literature, JAMA, Measure, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Poetry East, River Teeth, Rock & Sling, and elsewhere. Her essay ""Those Summers, These Days"" was included as a notable essay in the next Best American Essays anthology. She lives with her husband and three children in Ashland, Ohio. You follower Sarah at www.sarahmwells.com.
ISBN: 1620323303
ISBN13: 9781620323304
Author: Sarah M. Wells
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2012-06-01
Language: English
PageCount: 88
Dimensions: 6.0 x 0.2 x 9.0 inches
Weight: 4.8 ounces

Description: In pruning, a decision must be made whether to ""either slowly hollow, heartwood rotting outward, / or grow from green into a fiery blaze in autumn."" Pruning Burning Bushes is a collection of poems that explores the intersection of the natural and spiritual worlds with the personal and familial worlds. The book wrestles with this decision--to grow or to rot. Walking from the valley to the highest summit and back down into the depths of the canyon riverbed, the poems travel through the author's childhood filled with family and farm life, new marriage life, and subsequent miscarriages, the births of her children and deaths of relatives, and walking in the quiet waters of faith, sometimes raging and sometimes rejoicing. Endorsements: ""Wells has been granted--and she knows it--the grace to eat life right down to the seed, where the joy of the mystery lies, and the peace that passes understanding. Deft and inventive with strict form, with ambitious narrative, and with the poignant perspective that, when called for, comes of becoming a small child, Wells equally thrives on the merest simplisms of faith, on the densest meditation, and above all on her experience of full humanity, turning all to stunningly cogent advantage."" --Sydney Lea, author of Six Sundays Toward a Seventh ""Where Suburbans 'honk and veer' behind a neighbor's combine and Jesus walks into a bar to play pool with farmers, the poems of Sarah Wells study those juxtapositions of the urban and the rural, the wild and the agrarian which we live with in this country often without noticing. She notices and responds with the empathy of Theodore Roethke for the vulnerable non-human world and the visionary understanding of St. John of Patmos who knew a sign when he saw one. It is a pleasure to read a book of poetry dedicated to 'spirits reckless with praise and the need to be filled.'"" --Mark Jarman, author of Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems ""Sarah Wells's droll, evocative title perfectly fits her collection of poems, a series of 'double exposures' that superimpose the biblical on a background of rural Ohio. On that quilt-like ground, individual poems rich in the specifics of their time and place offer scenes from married life and motherhood, aging, and the process of accepting (but not erasing) inevitable losses . . . This is a book to savor, not in haste but slowly, so as to enjoy the unobtrusive rightness of the language, the mature but unjaded view of the human condition, the depth under the playfulness."" --Rhina P. Espaillat, author of Her Place in These Designs ""Pruning Burning Bushes balances Wells's spiritual life with humor; there's the bawdy life of carnivals and yet a true spiritual practice mixed harmoniously in. The personality of the author comes through attractively."" --Sandra McPherson, author of Expectation Days About the Contributor(s): Sarah M. Wells serves as the Administrative Director of the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University, where she is also Managing Editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and the Ashland Poetry Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in Alimentum, Ascent, Christianity & Literature, JAMA, Measure, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Poetry East, River Teeth, Rock & Sling, and elsewhere. Her essay ""Those Summers, These Days"" was included as a notable essay in the next Best American Essays anthology. She lives with her husband and three children in Ashland, Ohio. You follower Sarah at www.sarahmwells.com.

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Description: In pruning, a decision must be made whether to ""either slowly hollow, heartwood rotting outward, / or grow from green into a fiery blaze in autumn."" Pruning Burning Bushes is a collection of poems that explores the intersection of the natural and spiritual worlds with the personal and familial worlds. The book wrestles with this decision--to grow or to rot. Walking from the valley to the highest summit and back down into the depths of the canyon riverbed, the poems travel through the author's childhood filled with family and farm life, new marriage life, and subsequent miscarriages, the births of her children and deaths of relatives, and walking in the quiet waters of faith, sometimes raging and sometimes rejoicing. Endorsements: ""Wells has been granted--and she knows it--the grace to eat life right down to the seed, where the joy of the mystery lies, and the peace that passes understanding. Deft and inventive with strict form, with ambitious narrative, and with the poignant perspective that, when called for, comes of becoming a small child, Wells equally thrives on the merest simplisms of faith, on the densest meditation, and above all on her experience of full humanity, turning all to stunningly cogent advantage."" --Sydney Lea, author of Six Sundays Toward a Seventh ""Where Suburbans 'honk and veer' behind a neighbor's combine and Jesus walks into a bar to play pool with farmers, the poems of Sarah Wells study those juxtapositions of the urban and the rural, the wild and the agrarian which we live with in this country often without noticing. She notices and responds with the empathy of Theodore Roethke for the vulnerable non-human world and the visionary understanding of St. John of Patmos who knew a sign when he saw one. It is a pleasure to read a book of poetry dedicated to 'spirits reckless with praise and the need to be filled.'"" --Mark Jarman, author of Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems ""Sarah Wells's droll, evocative title perfectly fits her collection of poems, a series of 'double exposures' that superimpose the biblical on a background of rural Ohio. On that quilt-like ground, individual poems rich in the specifics of their time and place offer scenes from married life and motherhood, aging, and the process of accepting (but not erasing) inevitable losses . . . This is a book to savor, not in haste but slowly, so as to enjoy the unobtrusive rightness of the language, the mature but unjaded view of the human condition, the depth under the playfulness."" --Rhina P. Espaillat, author of Her Place in These Designs ""Pruning Burning Bushes balances Wells's spiritual life with humor; there's the bawdy life of carnivals and yet a true spiritual practice mixed harmoniously in. The personality of the author comes through attractively."" --Sandra McPherson, author of Expectation Days About the Contributor(s): Sarah M. Wells serves as the Administrative Director of the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University, where she is also Managing Editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and the Ashland Poetry Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in Alimentum, Ascent, Christianity & Literature, JAMA, Measure, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Poetry East, River Teeth, Rock & Sling, and elsewhere. Her essay ""Those Summers, These Days"" was included as a notable essay in the next Best American Essays anthology. She lives with her husband and three children in Ashland, Ohio. You follower Sarah at www.sarahmwells.com.
ISBN: 1620323303
ISBN13: 9781620323304
Author: Sarah M. Wells
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2012-06-01
Language: English
PageCount: 88
Dimensions: 6.0 x 0.2 x 9.0 inches
Weight: 4.8 ounces

Description: In pruning, a decision must be made whether to ""either slowly hollow, heartwood rotting outward, / or grow from green into a fiery blaze in autumn."" Pruning Burning Bushes is a collection of poems that explores the intersection of the natural and spiritual worlds with the personal and familial worlds. The book wrestles with this decision--to grow or to rot. Walking from the valley to the highest summit and back down into the depths of the canyon riverbed, the poems travel through the author's childhood filled with family and farm life, new marriage life, and subsequent miscarriages, the births of her children and deaths of relatives, and walking in the quiet waters of faith, sometimes raging and sometimes rejoicing. Endorsements: ""Wells has been granted--and she knows it--the grace to eat life right down to the seed, where the joy of the mystery lies, and the peace that passes understanding. Deft and inventive with strict form, with ambitious narrative, and with the poignant perspective that, when called for, comes of becoming a small child, Wells equally thrives on the merest simplisms of faith, on the densest meditation, and above all on her experience of full humanity, turning all to stunningly cogent advantage."" --Sydney Lea, author of Six Sundays Toward a Seventh ""Where Suburbans 'honk and veer' behind a neighbor's combine and Jesus walks into a bar to play pool with farmers, the poems of Sarah Wells study those juxtapositions of the urban and the rural, the wild and the agrarian which we live with in this country often without noticing. She notices and responds with the empathy of Theodore Roethke for the vulnerable non-human world and the visionary understanding of St. John of Patmos who knew a sign when he saw one. It is a pleasure to read a book of poetry dedicated to 'spirits reckless with praise and the need to be filled.'"" --Mark Jarman, author of Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems ""Sarah Wells's droll, evocative title perfectly fits her collection of poems, a series of 'double exposures' that superimpose the biblical on a background of rural Ohio. On that quilt-like ground, individual poems rich in the specifics of their time and place offer scenes from married life and motherhood, aging, and the process of accepting (but not erasing) inevitable losses . . . This is a book to savor, not in haste but slowly, so as to enjoy the unobtrusive rightness of the language, the mature but unjaded view of the human condition, the depth under the playfulness."" --Rhina P. Espaillat, author of Her Place in These Designs ""Pruning Burning Bushes balances Wells's spiritual life with humor; there's the bawdy life of carnivals and yet a true spiritual practice mixed harmoniously in. The personality of the author comes through attractively."" --Sandra McPherson, author of Expectation Days About the Contributor(s): Sarah M. Wells serves as the Administrative Director of the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University, where she is also Managing Editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and the Ashland Poetry Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in Alimentum, Ascent, Christianity & Literature, JAMA, Measure, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Poetry East, River Teeth, Rock & Sling, and elsewhere. Her essay ""Those Summers, These Days"" was included as a notable essay in the next Best American Essays anthology. She lives with her husband and three children in Ashland, Ohio. You follower Sarah at www.sarahmwells.com.

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  • Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, but the text cannot be obscured or unreadable.

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Shipping method varies depending on what is being shipped.  

Tracking
All orders are shipped with a tracking number. Once your order has left our warehouse, a confirmation e-mail with a tracking number will be sent to you. You will be able to track your package at all times. 

Damaged Parcel
If your package has been delivered in a PO Box, please note that we are not responsible for any damage that may result (consequences of extreme temperatures, theft, etc.). 

If you have any questions regarding shipping or want to know about the status of an order, please contact us or email to support@stevensbooks.com.

You may return most items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund.

To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.

Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases.

Additional non-returnable items:

  • Gift cards
  • Downloadable software products
  • Some health and personal care items

To complete your return, we require a tracking number, which shows the items which you already returned to us.
There are certain situations where only partial refunds are granted (if applicable)

  • Book with obvious signs of use
  • CD, DVD, VHS tape, software, video game, cassette tape, or vinyl record that has been opened
  • Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error
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Items returned to us as a result of our error will receive a full refund,some returns may be subject to a restocking fee of 7% of the total item price, please contact a customer care team member to see if your return is subject. Returns that arrived on time and were as described are subject to a restocking fee.

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