Love and other Mysteries
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2024
FritzSearch.com earns a commission on purchases made through Bookshop.org links.
Publisher's Description
Love and other Mysteries are poems of longing and of seeking from the perspective of a woman in midlife. They are poems of Thank you and I wish, poems that embrace life's mysterious turns to the click of rosary beads, round and round the four Mysteries: Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious. Perhaps stories must include loss--of parents, partners, health, dreams--before people are open to Love that loves them first, and in response, they blush. Love sung in the Canticle of Canticles, Song of Solomon. Perhaps there is nothing more theological than eros.
Endorsements (3)
“’Tell us your mysteries. Start with joyful.’ There is so much love here! Megan Willome’s poems inspirit saints, wilderness trails, road trips and rosaries, birds and blooms. From canticles to elegies, words are beads in her cradling hand: ‘she kneels tall … sings gems.’ Perhaps the young park ranger sums it up best: ‘You wouldn’t believe how these things reveal themselves.’”
“To read one of Megan Willome's jewel-like poems is to become Leeuwenhoek again, staring in gape-jawed wonder at the tiny "animalcules" swimming in the dish at the end of the first microscope. You're seeing things for the first time. Or maybe you're seeing old things with a new lens. This is elegant, insightful stuff, equally capable of delivering a quick gasp or a gentle chuckle. Yes, please.”
“In Love and other Mysteries, Willome explores the ways in which story and mystery intersect in the particularities of life, whether she is losing a wedding ring in the Rockies, waiting out a storm, or cleaning a bathroom after a loved one’s death. Structured around Song of Songs and the rosary, and simmering with a vivid, well-hiked Texas landscape throughout its pages, this collection is a love letter to that inexplicable space between heaven and earth that drives us to wonder and love.”
See something wrong on this page? Report a problem