After five decades of life at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky and ten published books of poetry, his A Matter of the Heart mingles reflections, meditations, insights, and wanderings with outward experiences in nature, community, and sketches of monks-saintly, comical, or strange-poetic moments, for a multi-colored, diverse, and surprising display of what it is […]
Rebecca Redding
A Home for Friendless Women follows the Home’s benevolent benefactors and several of the fallen women who live there through their daily religious lessons and hard work while grappling with a terrible secret that has the power to unravel the Home entirely.
The poems in A Field of First Things are evocations of experience, attempts to clarify, preserve, and share first things.
1666: A Novel, her second work of historical fiction based on interviewing tribal elders, researching colonial documents, and studying the Patawomeck language, tells the story of her people and their unlikely survival due to the courage of two Patawomeck women.