Struck Dumb with Singing

Struck Dumb with SingingSchessers poems are alive with rapture for earthscapes brimming with the divine as she travels in the company of Hopkins and Roethke and Jacques Maritain, working a clutch of words stumbling through a universe in praise of undeviating love. John Balaban, Lamont Prize winner, author of Empires LeighAnna Schessers Struck Dumb With Singing delivers an incantatory, spiritual journey through beautifully rendered pastoral poems: What claw and talon beast of

now more than ever

This book is going to change a lot of lives

And he has emerged as a great leader and example for anyone who desires a life of service—anyone looking for “something more pastoral

he came to lead two major American sees

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His superiors made him porter – the friar who answered the door and the telephone – and he served in that role with a degree of perfection that seems miraculous

no less solidly

but what's most exciting in them is the animating voice

[Greer] puts on the page the passion long absent from American poetry

– Dana Gioia

He made it his mission to help ordinary people apply the truths of the Gospel to the circumstances of everyday life

there are three prompts following each meditation to help you apply St