The Weather of the Heart: Selected Poems
Madeleine L'Engle bids us, in her own words, to "sit at sacrament" with her "across a strange and distant table." It is a paschal event, a meal of rememberence.Where her own hurt is cruciform, we are the more alive. When she admits arrogance in Gethsemane, we, too, remember glutting on unleavened...
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Madeleine L'Engle bids us, in her own words, to "sit at sacrament" with her "across a strange and distant table." It is a paschal event, a meal of rememberence.Where her own hurt is cruciform, we are the more alive. When she admits arrogance in Gethsemane, we, too, remember glutting on unleavened loaves. But as she herself declares:"Never was a feast finer than this. Come, eat and drink, unfreeze and live." --Calvin Miller, author of The Singer Trilogy
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780877889311 (0877889317)
Publish date: March 7th 2000
Publisher: Shaw Books
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
I found myself far less impressed than I expected to be. I love her books, but somehow this poetry seemed less like proper poetry and more like reflections in the form of poetry. [May 2011]
2.5 - 3 starsMy favorites were after Annunciation, Like Every Newborn, and The Risk of Birth.
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