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"O Lord, what fame Your name on earth receives...From children's mouths a founded strength achieves..." Within The Bible, God's Law is clear and images of wrath or judgement from the Almighty may come to mind. Yet, rooted in the center of it, beautiful messages-in the form of poetry and artful spiritual reflection-speak directly to one's emotions.Dr. Christian Sidney Dickinson presents this unique collection of Psalm Sonnets-giving readers a taste of splendor within the Scriptures-and reintroducing Christians to this lost genre of devotional poetry from the 19th century. He returns the sonnets to a traditional form-with a classical meter and rhyme-and accompanies them with incredible artwork by illustrator, Dr. Byrd Roger, who thoughtfully brings the verses to life. These poems are also written for seekers. Those who are curious about God, but aren't interested in attending church, will find doctrinal truths of The Bible written for the soul.

The poems in J. Scott Brownlee's first full-length collection, Requiem for Used Ignition Cap, explore the rural landscape and residents of Brownlee's native Llano, Texas. Brownlee might be considered a natural mystic, refusing to settle for the simplistic ideological framework offered by his religious heritage, but rather finding in the particulars of place the vehicles of transcendence. Drawn into the local by these poems, the reader finds much that proves universal.

In this collection of portraits, the eye is the vital "lamp of the body," a spiritual organ van Eerden uses to craft essays that are as much encounters as they are likenesses, as much being seen as seeing. Historical subjects like Simone Weil and the Beguines confront the author's imaginative and intellectual being, while the viscerally close foci of family and a lost marriage must also be reckoned with. The author's religious tradition and the rural landscape of Terra Alta, West Virginia are two backgrounds that are neither chosen nor fully understood, but van Eerden's attention to these matters becomes its own form of devotion, a longing to see and to believe-the longing itself taking on the robustness of faith. This is the common goal of these essays, to fully meet each subject and return to it some form of wholeness, a quest full of lush imagery and insights.

Finalist for the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry