Begin with a Question: Poems by Marjorie Maddox

Begin with a Question: Poems

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Begin with a Question: Poems

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Begin with a Question: Poems

by Marjorie Maddox

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Winner of the 2023 Illumination Book Awards
Winner of the 2022 International Book Awards
Third Place 2023 Catholic Media Association's Book Awards

Begin with a Question explores how the life of faith is a continuous voyage, launched anew each bright day of the spirit or dark night of the soul. This is a book of contemplation and motion, a journey--often in stops and starts--toward the Divine, a pilgrimage paved with prayer, praise, pause, penitence, and (of course) questions. Urgent and universal, joyful or joyless, tinged with doubt or rinsed with hope, here are honest queries that probe, lift, and lead to discovery.

Begin with a Question keeps us moving, seeking, reaching, lifting us out of ourselves to something beyond. Using a variety of fixed forms and free verse, the poet examines our relationship to the one who asks, "Who do you say that I am?" A book for seekers, doubters, and believers alike, these poems bring us face to face with anguish, anger, awe, and adoration. They give us permission not to demand answers, but to follow the questions that lead to the Alpha and Omega, to the I AM that keeps us spiraling along this twisting path toward God.

Begin with a Question is 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. Paraclete's Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.
Book Details
Publisher:
Iron Pen
ISBN:
9781640605374
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Marjorie Maddox
Published Date:
2022-03-22
Language:
English
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About Marjorie Maddox

Marjorie Maddox is Professor Emerita of English and creative writing at the Lock Haven campus of Commonwealth University. She earned a BA at Wheaton College, an MA at the University of Louisville and an MFA in poetry at Cornell, where she studied with A.R. Ammons. She won the Sandstone Book Award for Perpendicular As I, the Yellowglen Prize for Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation and, in 2019, the Foley Poetry Prize from America magazine. She writes for children too, among them A Crossing of Zebras and Rules of the Game, edits for Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, and has hosted WPSU's Poetry Moment. She lives in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

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