Paul Mariani

“this need to dance / this need to kneel”

Arts & Literature

“A wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking and provocative essays that explore the theological, political, ecological, esthetic, and poetic dimensions of Denise Levertov’s grace-saturated poetry and thought. Here is a voice, it has become ever clearer, as central to the Catholic imagination as the work of Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day.”

For Theirs Is the Kingdom

Fiction

“Here is a novel that will stick with you long after you've read it. Carlisle writes about worlds he knows . . . asking the quintessential questions about life's meaning and offering, among the witty and charged exchanges, a wealth of profound answers for the reader to ponder.”

Jesus

Arts & Literature

“David Craig’s poems read like something written by a hip Franciscan, filled with a surprising sense of self-effacement and humility, mixed with a continual note of celebration for the things of this world: sunsets, sunrises, the chirp of birds, his beautiful family, the happy howl of his two dogs. Somehow he makes you feel, as he says, as if Jesus were, in fact, ‘to walk down the middle of our street / happy to sit with us on our back porch,’ to ‘talk about whatever we need to belong to / at the moment.’”

Pilgrim’s Gait

Arts & Literature

“Pilgrim's Gait is a multi-faceted, comic, Beat-like, dizzying pilgrim's progress in which two, three, and four roads (and more) diverge and we are taken down all of them. . . Craig invites us to follow him as he slogs and dances on in his own inimitable gait--equal parts St. Francis and Jack Kerouac--in a language which points beyond language to a vision with heaven's gate in view.”

Propelled into Wonder

Arts & Literature

“This collection has a homiletic core, and I am struck by the humility, humanity, honesty and humor of these poems. Matthew White’s work continues the beautiful tradition of the Metaphyscial poets and is especially reminiscent of John Donne and even more so, George Herbert.”

Reaching Forever

Arts & Literature

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

St. Francis Poems

Arts & Literature

“If anyone has drunk deeply of the model of St. Francis for our time, it has to be David Craig. He scatters flowers of spiritual wisdom with abandon toward us, which again and again and again bless even as they burn.”

The Book of Kells

Arts & Literature

“Somehow Barbara Crooker has fastened it all to the page here: the sweet green world of Ireland, with its glorious Book of Kells, its age-old humor, its inimitable music, its poets with their delicious bendy language, so that you can almost taste those buttery scones and its peat-laced Irish whiskey. There’s so much to love in this collection, to return to over and over: poems which this faithful scribe has gifted us with, in the long line of those ancient monks, her with a notebook in one hand, and a pen in the other.”

True, False, None of the Above

Arts & Literature

“In True, False, None of the Above, Maddox offers us a brilliant, witty, and vulnerable garland of poems. Here is the voice of a teacher, a poet, a mother and wife, a woman of faith bearing witness to a deep and lasting Truth, summoning--among others--the likes of Dante, Hopkins, Dickinson, Eliot, and Frost, each calling out to the other, often at scintillant cross-purposes, all set choiring to this magisterial teacher's gentle bidding.”

Ways of Confucius and of Christ

History & Biography

“Here we see the impressive life of a man who spent years as a diplomat for China and who later became a Benedictine monk. He saw every step of his life as a vocation. The humility and the intelligence leap off the page. The book is aided by a fine introduction and notes.”

What Cannot Be Fixed

Arts & Literature

“Reading--no, experiencing--the poems of Jill Baumgaertner is like entering the dawn of the eighth day of creation, they are that beautiful and true. . . . How is it that this poet can so quickly and quietly and seamlessly draw us into the living dream of the holy?”