ISBN: 9780819511775

Saint Herman Press, October 1999. Paper Back. New. <p>The <b>Optina Elders Series</b> brings to light the lives and teachings of the great Elders of Optina for the Eng… Plus…

Saint Herman Press, October 1999. Paper Back. New. <p>The <b>Optina Elders Series</b> brings to light the lives and teachings of the great Elders of Optina for the English-speaking world. A long-standing monastery that was renovated at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a center for Russian staretz (venerated elders and teachers), the monastery attracted crowds of Russian seekers including Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy. Saint Paisius Velichkovsky was instrumental in bringing the virtually lost hesychastic tradition of Orthodox spirituality to Russia in the eighteenth century, and the Optina Monastery acted as nerve center for its spread throughout the Russian land. The volumes in this Series are compiled from personal memoirs of each elder or his disciples, journals, notes and correspondence.</p> <p>In this short space, we offer only a tantalizing bit of the hard-won teaching which Volume 6 contains. A prayer to the Holy Spirit: ''O Holy Spirit, receive us like a mother in Thine embrace. Come and abide in us, and make an abode in our hearts. We will cleanse our minds, hearts, and souls from impure thoughts, feelings, and desires -- from all that defiles us. Help us, O Lord, by Thy grace, for without it we cannot be saved on our own and be preserved. O Most Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee! Strengthen my struggling heart on the rock of Thy commandments.'' 490 pp. </p>, Saint Herman Press, 6, New. This is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adelia Prado. Incorporating poems published over the past fifteen years, The Alphabet in the Park is a book of passion and intelligence, wit and instinct. These are poems about human concerns, especially those of women, about living in one's body and out of it, about the physical but also the spiritual and the imaginative life. Prado also writes about ordinary matters; she insists that the human experience is both mystical and carnal. To Prado these are not contradictory: &quot;It's the soul that's erotic,&quot; she writes. As Ellen Watson says in her introduction,&quot;Adelia Prados poetry is a poetry of abundance. These poems overflow with the humble, grand, various stuff of daily life - necklaces, bicycles, fish; saints and prostitutes and presidents; innumerable chickens and musical instruments...And, seemingly at every turn, there is food.&quot; But also, an abundance of dark things, cancer, death, greed. These are poems of appetite, all kinds., 6<

ISBN: 9780819511775

Poetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women. This is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adélia Prado. Incorporating… Plus…

Poetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women. This is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adélia Prado. Incorporating poems published over the past fifteen years, The Alphabet in the Park is a book of passion and intelligence, wit and instinct. These are poems about human concerns, especially those of women, about living in one's body and out of it, about the physical but also the spiritual and the imaginative life. Prado also writes about ordinary matters; she insists that the human experience is both mystical and carnal. To Prado these are not contradictory: "It's the soul that's erotic," she writes. As Ellen Watson says in her introduction, "Adélia Prados poetry is a poetry of abundance. These poems overflow with the humble, grand, various stuff of daily life ? necklaces, bicycles, fish; saints and prostitutes and presidents; innumerable chickens and musical instruments...And, seemingly at every turn, there is food." But also, an abundance of dark things, cancer, death, greed. These are poems of appetite, all kinds. Books, [PU: Wesleyan University Press]<

ISBN: 9780819511775

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