Christopher Merrill

A Word in My Mouth

Arts & Literature

“Robert Cording's journey into faith has yielded some of the most important poems of the age. He articulates the darkest questions and deepest yearnings of the spirit, in stately lines that turn and return to his perennial theme: how to discover meaning in 'the silence between stitches,' which extends into eternity, through all the glories of this world--bird and tree and wave. . . . A Word In My Mouth is filled with such astonishments.”

Letters from Abu Ghraib, Second Edition

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“What Joshua Casteel interrogates in Letters from Abu Ghraib is the very idea of liberty. For every enduring work of literature is an epistle from the prison of silence to the possibility of freedom.”

The Psalms of David

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

“Donald Sheehan's version of the Psalms is at once faithful to the original text, richly musical, and marked by the sort of ingenious solutions perhaps discoverable only in a life governed by poetry and prayer . . . His Psalter works as poetry, because it was born of humility and brought to perfection by dint of hard work and the grace of God.”

The Sculptor and His Stone

Theology

“This engaging collection of essays, which explores the dynamic relationship between Hellenistic thought and the writings of the Greek Fathers, opens a double window on Christianity and the classical world. What readers will find here are vistas certain to inform their understanding of the link between the wisdom of Homer and Sophocles, Plato and Aristotle, and the divine revelations of patristic tradition.”