Kiss the Earth When You Pray: The Father Zosima Poems: Forty-Two Meditations and a Prayer

This collection of poems explores the confounding, restless joy of encountering the Holy; Father Zosima speaks of the elemental Love that surrounds us and the mystery that is closer to us than the air we breathe.

Robert Hudson has that quality, all too rare in evangelicalism, of embracing mystery and thus giving his readers that freedom. --Philip Yancey, author, Where Is God When It Hurts? and What's So Amazing about Grace?

If poets are "orators of the imagination" (Wallace Stevens), this imm...