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How to Spot a Catholic Writer
We weren’t quite strangers in a strange land, but we were united by a faith that was somehow both strong and casual.
Read MoreWhen God Was a Woman
How many of you can say you have touched the shoes of God who walked the earth?
Read MoreThe Thing Itself
You know, don’t you, that nature
holds you close and finds no
fault with you?
From Pneumatic Earth
in their games children invent laws
they keep usefully for joy or break
joyfully for use—
Benediction
It is difficult being the daughter of a very beautiful mother. Even a mother who drank frequently, with enthusiasm, and beginning at two in the afternoon on bad days.
Read MoreBefore I Knew Sin
I learned to ski on the filthy Mississippi
Read MoreFrom At the Grave of Teilhard de Chardin
What comes at the very end, he said, is the adorable.
Read MoreFrom At the Grave of Teilhard de Chardin
Am I not the emblem of all that was or will be
Read MoreShape-Shifter: The Native American Iconography of Preston Singletary
Again and again, Singletary displaces the viewer by transforming traditional crafts and folkways into new, light-bearing idioms.
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