Title

The Way of All the Earth

Authors

Susan Sink, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityFollow

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Description

These poems have a visual richness, narrative depth and lyric beauty that invites the reader into their world. That world is populated by women in the grips of religious fanaticism, drunkards and child molesters, lovers and mothers and sisters, and at the center of it a young woman trying to find the words to tell the tales of a life, and make sense of the way we all struggle to cope with life's burdens and recognize life's beauty. These poems tell the story of the way we all do the best we can to love and to live. As one poem says, "It wasn't the healing, ever, that mattered./ It was the love, even done this poorly,/ what little we could do with what the world allowed:/our battered hands and this God."

Publisher’s Website

http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/Products/SKU-000019414/The-Way-of-All-the-Earth.aspx

ISBN

9780595290710

Publication Date

8-2003

Publisher

iUniverse

City

New York

Disciplines

Religion

Recommended Citation

Sink, Susan. 2003. The way of all the earth. New York: iUniverse.