Songs of Gems and Bones
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2023
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Publisher's Description
This collection of song-like poems has as its overarching theme the mystery-filled relationship between two worlds: the spiritual and the earthly realms invoked by the two key terms in the book's title: gems and bones. It is difficult most of the time to separate these two worlds, and the poems serve to communicate the author's experience of the tensions, the ecstasies, even the humor which unfold with their intertwining. The various dimensions of that experience are reflected in the organization of the "songs" into six sub-thematic chapters: songs from the garden; of death and falling; of griping and wrestling; of vision; of striving; of love and cleaving. While deeply personal, the poems nevertheless struggle towards a mode of expression of the spiritual life on earth appealing to readers of diverse religious backgrounds.
Endorsements (2)
“Michelle Rebidoux’s poems sing of gems scattered by a divine lover in earth and sky, sea and soul. They evoke an ache in our bones for the God whose treasures seem ever present yet always elusive. Take these poems and turn them towards the light. They sparkle and call forth prayer that we may dwell in God and God in us, even in our very bones.”
“Michelle Rebidoux’s poetry is illustrative of her participation in the universal search for meaning in life. However, her search is not simply confined to seeking a supranatural deity in a distant heaven; she also seeks the divine in nature as in her life’s experiences. Her poems nurture in the reader a sense of awe and wonder in the ordinary, which is so easily displaced from contemporary living by the ‘busyness’ of modernity.”
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