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Her poems are like windows opening to the soul, inviting readers to pause, reflect, and savor the beauty of the world around them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e INCREMENTS \u003cbr\u003e I live by increments, single \u003cbr\u003e breaths of an ambient air, \u003cbr\u003e marking off hours, days. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Apprenticed to grace, I tread \u003ci\u003estatio \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ein sequentiae, \u003c\/i\u003e edging every step \u003cbr\u003e forward before venturing the next. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Staggering up towards the stony \u003cbr\u003e crests of the foothills, dusty, I am \u003cbr\u003e almost undone with weariness, only half \u003cbr\u003e believing that the view will widen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In my falling upward into your home, \u003cbr\u003e O Faithful One, stay with me, \u003cbr\u003e your wind music playing the ear of \u003cbr\u003e my mind like an instrument. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is how life happens, one day at a time, in increments! 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For the Christian artist, the drive to create something wonderful is also a means to glorify and better understand our Lord. Using excerpts from her own works as well as those of writers who have gone before her--Emily Dickinson, Annie Dillard, C.S. Lewis, and others--poet and writer Luci Shaw proves that symbolism and metaphor provide ways for humans to experience God in new and powerful ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShaw offers a rich and thought-provoking exploration of art, creativity, and faith. Believing that art emanates from God, she shows how imagination and spirituality \"work in tandem, each feeding on and nourishing the other.\" Faith informs art and art enhances faith. 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Autobiography once more merges with theology as these poems illuminate in splendored natural detail how the seasons of creation parallel and explain the seasons of her life as a poet. Again and again, these poems shower us with glorious epiphanies from the natural world as it reflects God's generosity at work such as \"spring's impossible news of green.\" These poems confirm that in poetry as in faith \"ripeness is all.\" Like Wordsworth, Luci is celebrated for being a highly gifted landscape poet whose works are rich in imagery from the physical world--meadows filled with seeds, flowers, and also poems which are like \"shoots\" in Luci's writing life. Animals, too, great and small (beetles, cricket, and voles to bears and whales) play a major role in Luci's poetics of creation; God is likened to a great bear who leaves paw tracks for us to follow. 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The second law of thermodynamics asserts that entropy, or disorder, always increases with time. Creative human activities such as art, architecture, music, story or film are human efforts to halt and reverse this loss of meaning. Thus, smaller systems, like individual poems, become highly ordered as they receive energy from outside themselves, from the poet. They reverse entropy because they are moving from a state of disorder (all the random ideas, words and phrases available to the writer) into an orderly form designed by the writer to create meaningful images and concepts in the reader's mind (which is where the word \"imag-ination\" comes from.) This transfer of images, concepts and ideas into the mind of a reader is the task of poetry and the calling of the poet. Just as a composer of music gathers rhythms, notes, melodies, or harmony, organizing them into fugues or sonatas or concertos, so poets work and write to discover ways of arranging their responses to the world in words that introduce meaning and beauty in the mind of the reader. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Which is what I've been trying to do for most of my life. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Luci Shaw","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43876808458282,"sku":"9781640608702","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/reversing-entropy-poems-1381154.jpg?v=1764923825"},{"product_id":"angels-everywhere-poems","title":"Angels Everywhere: Poems","description":"\"The word 'angel' means 'messenger' and the title poem of this book, 'Angels Everywhere, ' presents the idea that what I often glimpse is a flicker of glancing light, as if a heavenly being is darting in and out of my viewing, allowing me entry into a realm beyond my physical, experiential world--brief revelatory messages from somewhere beyond. I'm hoping that as you read these poems, (more than once, aloud if possible) something like Wordsworth's 'intimations of immortality' will enliven your own perceptions of the world as you experience it. Maybe your own fleet of angels will show up!\" --Luci Shaw, from the Introduction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngels Everywhere \u003c\/i\u003eis published under Paraclete Press's Iron Pen imprint. 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. 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