Jeanine Hathaway 
Long after Lauds [EPUB ebook] 
Poems

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Ever since the Middle Ages, the first hour of daily prayer in monastic life–Matins–has roused the community from sleep. Wisely, the second hour was reserved for Lauds, which means praise. Praise with that freshly awakened consciousness. In this way, such an attitude toward the world, seen and unseen, could be absorbed before breakfast.
The poems in this book continue that tradition–though outside a monastic community–of waking up, reflecting, and discerning what there is to praise–and how, and whom. The book constructs an introspective retrospective of a woman charged with curiosity and accommodating doubt. Over decades, she acknowledges with gratitude her own daily shaping by students, grandchildren, rhinos–a public and private history full of saints and ain’ts.
Beyond the author’s erstwhile community chanting Lauds, she explores its resonance with wit and wistfulness and arrives at this truth: praise over time alters the one who gives it.

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Jeanine Hathaway currently enjoys professor emerita status from Wichita State University, where she has taught writing and literature. She was a poetry mentor in Seattle Pacific University’s MFA Program. Hathaway is the author of the autobiographical novel Motherhouse (1992), the 2001 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize-winning The Self as Constellation (2002), and a chapbook, The Ex-Nun Poems (2011).

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 88 ● ISBN 9781639820238 ● Dimensione 2.4 MB ● Casa editrice Slant Books ● Pubblicato 2019 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 8272010 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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