This collection of poems begins in the&nbsp;growing&nbsp;darkness&nbsp;of November, stretches through&nbsp;Advent and&nbsp;the seasons leading to&nbsp;Easter and to&nbsp;Pentecost,&nbsp;and ends in the&nbsp;budding light&nbsp;of&nbsp;the Scottish Orkney Islands,&nbsp;where the canonical hours measure time over centuries and where God broods over an austere and beautiful landscape. The measurement of time passing and returning, year after year, in the rhythms of the&nbsp;seasons and of the&nbsp;liturgical&nbsp;year, create the pace&nbsp;and&nbsp;the song. But&nbsp;in the biblical voices of Magdalene, Mary, Abel, and Eve, and in the&nbsp;grim historical and political realities&nbsp;of war and suffering, one also hears lament and finds the poet's clear-eyed gaze straight into life's challenges. Memory is at work here, too, in personal reminiscences&nbsp;and in&nbsp;theological reflection.&nbsp;As one philosopher has said, "All truth is God's truth."&nbsp; From Shade to Shine is published under Paraclete Press's&nbsp;Iron Pen&nbsp;imprint.&nbsp;In the book of Job, a suffering man pours out his anguish to his Maker. From the depths of his pain, he reveals a trust in God's goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paraclete's Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.

From Shade to Shine: New Poems

Literature & Fiction

Peláez Baumgaertner, Jill

Poetry

Iron Pen

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From Shade to Shine: New Poems