This second volume of poetry from one of America's critically acclaimed poets, Charlotte Barr, focuses on transitions in both the life and work of the poet. These poems will hold, bathe, and release you and fill you with their recreating power. Reading them, you might just discover your place and re-search the journey to the center of your soul. Parson's Porch Books is proud to reissue The Bell Buckle Years.

The Bell Buckle Years

Literature & Fiction

Barr, Charlotte

Poetry

Bell Buckle Pr

Sister woman: Poems

Britton James Publishers

From 1960 to 1990, Charlotte Barr belonged to a religious order in Nashville, Tennessee, where she was known as Sister Mary Anthony, OP. She was a teacher for over forty years, most notably at St. Cecelia Academy and Aquinas College on Nashville's Dominican Campus. After leaving St. Cecelia, Charlotte taught of two years at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. Since 1992, she has taught at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, where she held the position of poet-in-residence. Charlotte retired from teaching in 2007. During her novitiate year, Charlotte began seriously to write poetry. Her early convent poems appeared in the collection, Brief Blue Season, in 1966. Over the years, Charlotte's work has been published in several periodicals and journals, including The Sewanee Review, The Cumberland Review, The Distillery, and The Spire, a publication of the Vanderbilt Divinity School. Two volumes of poetry, Sister Woman (1989) and The Bell Buckle Years (1992), were published by Maggi Vaughn at Iris Press.

The Text Beneath

Parson's Porch Books

The Intermundia Press, LLC< proudly releases poet Charlotte Barr's latest book, My Youth Like Petals: A Convent Memoir. A bool full or attentiveness, which is the natural prayer of the soul, readers will encounter not only what it is like to live the convent life, but they will also encounter themselves as much as they encounter the author, who from the very first sentence is in the world through more than compassionate involvement with it.We come to know, understand, and become better attuned to ourselves.

My Youth Like Petals: A Convent Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Intermundia Press

The Intermundia Press is proud to annonce the release of a new book by poet Charlotte Barr, Hungry Moon: Portraits of Appalachian Women. Based on interviews conducted during a sabbatical in 1985–1986, this volume is an incredible document of and testament to the women of Appalchia. With a foreword by Marie Cirillo, this book, which is a collaborative effort that features the music and lyrics of David Farrington Barr, the photography of Warren Brunner, and the words of Charlotte Barr raises our consciousness and consciences. It is a real treasure within the scope of Americana and a much-needed addition to our ongoing understanding of contemporary American history—a revelation of a mostly unknown, unheard history. Hearing these women's voices as they sound off the page is one thing. Seeing them in Warren Brunner's photographs is icing on the cake. Add to this the haunting music and lyrics of David Farrington Barr's song, "Hungry Moon," and we experience the sense of struggle and hope in the images and powerful and empowering voices of the mountain women within these pages. Through this book, we are blessed for having been provided with a language that is both a prelude and call to action and itself is a kind of action. This is indeed a meaningful achievement. Charlotte Barr is the author of a number of books of poetry, including Sister Woman, The Bell Buckle Years, The Text Beneath, and Looking Up. Her most recent publication is My Youth Like Petals: A Convent Memoir, published by the Intermundia Press.

Hungry Moon: Portraits of Appalachian Women

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This new edition of Charlotte Barr's Sister Woman is poetry for these dire times. Neither pedantic poesis nor devotional poetry of an inferior kind. This is poetry that reaches into the deepest-and highest-parts of our being, rejuvenating our souls and "redeeming them from the plaque of . . . over-habitual miasma," as the new foreword reminds us. This is no ordinary collection but rather one of the true maker's art, requiring a vigilance and commitment often found lacking in today's culture. We are indeed blessed to be made aware of grace in the nooks and crannies of the heart.

Sister Woman

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The Bell Buckle Years

Sister woman: Poems

The Text Beneath

My Youth Like Petals: A Convent Memoir

Hungry Moon: Portraits of Appalachian Women

The Bell Buckle Years

Sister Woman