In one of the prayer-poems compiled in Matt Mauch's Prayer Book, the speaker prays to a rock without coming across as phony. Though essentially secular, there is, in these poems, a gut-level understanding of an individual's turn toward that which is instinctually divine-a rejection of dogma and rules in an attempt to take back something essential: the feeling (rather than the idea) of prayer as hope, prayer as song, prayer as poem. Among the laundromats, VFWs, parking lots, and backyard cookouts-many of the poems occurring in places where urban and natural landscapes meet-are often-humorous portraits of vulnerability warring with a kind of I-don't-want-to-wilt-too-much strength. The various speakers are lying in a ditch, wanting to become a brick in a building, communing with a pigeon, stuck in moments they want to get out of (or get something out of), wandering and wondering when they crave the ability to be arriving and deciding
The poems in this anthology were read at the inaugural Great Twin Cities Poetry Read in Minneapolis/St. Paul Includes poems by: Richard Robbins, MC Hyland, Joyce Sutphen, Katrina Vandenberg, Paula Cisewski, Kathryn Kysar, William Reichard, Tim Nolan, Cass Dalglish, Jim Lenfesty, James Cihlar, Eric Lorberer, Richard Terrill, Margaret Hasse, Matt Rasmussen, Candace Black, LouAnn Shepard Muhm, Leslier A. Miller, Patricia Kirkpatrick, Gretchen Rueth, Todd Boss, Brad Liening, Morgan Grayce Willow, Greg Hewett And essays, reviews, and interviews by: Matt Mauch, Richard Robbins, MC Hyland, Lynette Reini-Grandell, Kate Shuknecht, Brad Liening, Morgan Grayce Willow, Richard Terrill
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