Mark Bosco

“this need to dance / this need to kneel”

Arts & Literature

“This is a stunning collection of essays on one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. Taken together, they offer a profound way to engage the theological poetics of Denise Levertov’s work.”

Great Risks Had to be Taken

History & Biography

“Father Patrick Howell offers a fine history of the last sixty years of the Society of Jesus as it struggled to discern how to respond to the call of the Second Vatican Council. By framing this history within the personal events of his own life, Fr. Howell brings alive the many issues discussed around Jesuit dinner tables throughout the years . . . A deeply felt story of a Jesuit’s love for the Church and his fellow brothers.”

The Fine Delight

Arts & Literature

“Nicholas Ripatrazone offers an insightful interrogation into the theological and aesthetic strategies of contemporary Catholic writers--novelists, poets, and essayists writing in the last fifty years. Aware that the Catholic imagination is not static, he suggests helpful ways to understand how post-Vatican II writers situate their faith in light of their artistic vision. A timely book, Ripatrazone helps extend the critical and pastoral implications of a Catholic literary aesthetic.”

The Habit of Poetry

Arts & Literature

“Nick Ripatrazone’s The Habit of Poetry does us a great service in retrieving an important thread in the fabric of American Catholic literature of the twentieth century, the poetry of women religious whose talent and skill were recognized by both secular and religious critics. Women such as Madeleva Wolff, Jessica Powers, and Mary Bernetta Quinn, to name just a few of the nuns highlighted in this collection, found in their contemplative experience a way to negotiate both their commitments to religious life and their desire for poetic expression about modern life. In their published poems as well as in their correspondence with others, they were part of a larger conversation on the Catholic imagination at work in mid-century American arts and letters. This book had me searching the internet to find their poetry.”