Sermon Series by Stephanie Harper

$18.99

Stephanie Harper‘s Sermon Series offers a respite from the fast-paced cacophony of our world: brief, meditative poems of searching, fully open to delight.  This is a pilgrimage of details mined from the natural world, and the private landscape of the speaker’s soul.  Harper offers that oft-forgotten but vital ingredient of prayer and the sacred experience: listening born of silence.  A sermon, like the best sacred poetry, is a vehicle of preaching.  In the words of priest and poet, Thomas Merton, “Preaching God implies silence. If preaching is not born of silence, it is a waste of time.”  In Sermon Series, one can feel the poet listening between her words, as in the collection’s final poem: “with quiet purpose, the way a steady stream (glides) over smoothly faceted stone.” This is perhaps the best gift of the collection: it makes the reader listen, too.

–Annabelle Moseley, Annabelle Moseley is an award-winning poet, author, professor and speaker.

http://www.annabellemoseley.com/about/

 

 

 

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Sermon Series

by Stephanie Harper

$18.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-63534-301-4

2017

Stephanie Harper holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. She also writes fiction and non-fiction. This is her first collection of poetry. She lives in Denver, Colorado.

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