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Genre/Form: | Poetry |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Irene Zimmerman |
ISBN: | 1561012564 9781561012565 |
OCLC Number: | 54825909 |
Description: | 155 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Prologue: "In the Beginning Was the Word" -- I First Covenant Words -- II "And the Word Became Flesh" -- III "You Are My Beloved Son" -- IV "Behold, I Come to Do Your Will" -- V "Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit" -- VI "He Is Risen ... Go Tell the Others" -- VII Mulling the Word -- Epilogue: "I Am with You Always, to the End of the Age." |
Responsibility: | Irene Zimmerman. |
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Irene Zimmerman is a poet, and does what poets do. She overrides categories, breaks conventions, says it new, and moves us to where we gasp in the presence of gift. Some say imagination is linked to the Holy Spirit. So it is here, spirit of freedom, spirit of healing, spirit of joy. Irene says Mary's word is `yes.' Here it is God's `yes' to any listener. I am glad I am among them. -- Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary * Columbia Theological Seminary * This poetry mediates an original insight into the mysteries of the life of Christ, and the simple beauty of the language makes them not only illuminating but touching. -- Sandra M. Schneiders, The author of <I>Written That You May Believe and The Revelatory Text.<I> Read more...

