Liturgical Calendar
Using the structure of the liturgical calendar and the lives of the saints for inspiration, Kevin Brown explores not only faith, but subjects ranging from love to childhood and from grammar to grace. The saints' backgrounds serve as metaphors for our lives today, as we struggle with our mortality and our morality. In these poems, Brown is able to laugh at himself and his failings while reminding us of our own. He points out where our various approaches to faith make us better people and where we fail to follow what we tell others to do. In these poems, the miraculous becomes ordinary even as ordinary events and people are imbued with the sacred, granting readers hope for themselves and for the world. ""Kevin Brown's Liturgical Calendar marks its own stations, finds its own occasions for praise. Though holy days receive their due, these are poems of ordinary time, of the losses and miracles in any life, celebrating small gifts of the moment and sanctifying 'the ash / of our hands / and hearts.'"" --James Scruton, Mary B. Holmes Professor of Literature, Bethel University, McKenzie, TN ""Kevin Brown's glorious new poems use the liturgical calendar as a means of engaging with the vexing questions of now and of eternity, of time and timelessness. . . . These are poems to savor and cherish, as they move from everyday life to the deepest metaphysical mysteries. I can't praise this marvelous new collection enough for its honest, hard-won wisdom. It's simply beautiful."" --Anya Silver, Associate Professor of English, Mercer University, Atlanta, GA Kevin Brown is a professor at Lee University. He has published two other books of poetry--A Lexicon of Lost Words, winner of the 2013 Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, and Exit Lines (2009)--as well as two chapbooks. He also has a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again (2012), and a book of scholarship, They Love to Tell the Stories: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels (2012). He received his MFA from Murray State University.
1120931124
Liturgical Calendar
Using the structure of the liturgical calendar and the lives of the saints for inspiration, Kevin Brown explores not only faith, but subjects ranging from love to childhood and from grammar to grace. The saints' backgrounds serve as metaphors for our lives today, as we struggle with our mortality and our morality. In these poems, Brown is able to laugh at himself and his failings while reminding us of our own. He points out where our various approaches to faith make us better people and where we fail to follow what we tell others to do. In these poems, the miraculous becomes ordinary even as ordinary events and people are imbued with the sacred, granting readers hope for themselves and for the world. ""Kevin Brown's Liturgical Calendar marks its own stations, finds its own occasions for praise. Though holy days receive their due, these are poems of ordinary time, of the losses and miracles in any life, celebrating small gifts of the moment and sanctifying 'the ash / of our hands / and hearts.'"" --James Scruton, Mary B. Holmes Professor of Literature, Bethel University, McKenzie, TN ""Kevin Brown's glorious new poems use the liturgical calendar as a means of engaging with the vexing questions of now and of eternity, of time and timelessness. . . . These are poems to savor and cherish, as they move from everyday life to the deepest metaphysical mysteries. I can't praise this marvelous new collection enough for its honest, hard-won wisdom. It's simply beautiful."" --Anya Silver, Associate Professor of English, Mercer University, Atlanta, GA Kevin Brown is a professor at Lee University. He has published two other books of poetry--A Lexicon of Lost Words, winner of the 2013 Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, and Exit Lines (2009)--as well as two chapbooks. He also has a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again (2012), and a book of scholarship, They Love to Tell the Stories: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels (2012). He received his MFA from Murray State University.
36.0 In Stock
Liturgical Calendar

Liturgical Calendar

by Kevin Brown
Liturgical Calendar
Add to Wishlist
Liturgical Calendar

Liturgical Calendar

by Kevin Brown

Overview

Using the structure of the liturgical calendar and the lives of the saints for inspiration, Kevin Brown explores not only faith, but subjects ranging from love to childhood and from grammar to grace. The saints' backgrounds serve as metaphors for our lives today, as we struggle with our mortality and our morality. In these poems, Brown is able to laugh at himself and his failings while reminding us of our own. He points out where our various approaches to faith make us better people and where we fail to follow what we tell others to do. In these poems, the miraculous becomes ordinary even as ordinary events and people are imbued with the sacred, granting readers hope for themselves and for the world. ""Kevin Brown's Liturgical Calendar marks its own stations, finds its own occasions for praise. Though holy days receive their due, these are poems of ordinary time, of the losses and miracles in any life, celebrating small gifts of the moment and sanctifying 'the ash / of our hands / and hearts.'"" --James Scruton, Mary B. Holmes Professor of Literature, Bethel University, McKenzie, TN ""Kevin Brown's glorious new poems use the liturgical calendar as a means of engaging with the vexing questions of now and of eternity, of time and timelessness. . . . These are poems to savor and cherish, as they move from everyday life to the deepest metaphysical mysteries. I can't praise this marvelous new collection enough for its honest, hard-won wisdom. It's simply beautiful."" --Anya Silver, Associate Professor of English, Mercer University, Atlanta, GA Kevin Brown is a professor at Lee University. He has published two other books of poetry--A Lexicon of Lost Words, winner of the 2013 Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, and Exit Lines (2009)--as well as two chapbooks. He also has a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again (2012), and a book of scholarship, They Love to Tell the Stories: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels (2012). He received his MFA from Murray State University.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498203777
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Publication date: 12/12/2014
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Kevin Brown is a professor at Lee University. He has published two other books of poetry-A Lexicon of Lost Words, winner of the 2013 Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, and Exit Lines (2009)—as well as two chapbooks. He also has a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again (2012), and a book of scholarship, They Love to Tell the Stories: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels (2012). He received his MFA from Murray State University.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Kevin Brown's Liturgical Calendar marks its own stations, finds its own occasions for praise. Though holy days receive their due, these are poems of ordinary time, of the losses and miracles in any life, celebrating small gifts of the moment and sanctifying 'the ash / of our hands / and hearts.'"
—James Scruton, Mary B. Holmes Professor of Literature, Bethel University, McKenzie, TN

"Kevin Brown's glorious new poems use the liturgical calendar as a means of engaging with the vexing questions of now and of eternity, of time and timelessness. . . . These are poems to savor and cherish, as they move from everyday life to the deepest metaphysical mysteries. I can't praise this marvelous new collection enough for its honest, hard-won wisdom. It's simply beautiful."
—Anya Silver, Associate Professor of English, Mercer University, Atlanta, GA

From the B&N Reads Blog
Page 1 of

Related Subjects

Literature
Literary Criticism
General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous
Literature
Literary Criticism
General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous

Customer Reviews