Charles of the Desert is a novel-in-verse about Charles de Foucauld, a French cavalry officer whose travels in Morocco in 1883 spark his spiritual awakening. Seeking an identity that balances his zeal, faith, and ambition, he reinvents himself again and again, becoming a Trappist monk in Syria, then a gardener for Poor Clare nuns in Israel, then a priest and lexicographer in Algeria. Here, in the desolate Hoggar Mountains, he builds a mud house and chapel near the nomadic Tuareg and other Saharan peoples. What follows is the gripping story of a man who devotes himself to radical compassion and comes to see the Tuareg as his brothers, the desert as his earthly home. 

Charles of the Desert: A Life in Verse (Paraclete Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Woolfitt, William

Poetry

Paraclete Press

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Charles of the Desert: A Life in Verse (Paraclete Poetry)

The Night the Rain Had Nowhere to Go