Azimuth of God: Meditations on Absence & Presence - Softcover

Ayres, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990425843 ISBN 13: 9780990425847

Publisher: Veriditas Books, 2017

Synopsis

These lyric meditations marry the natural world and the spirit world, the mundane and the sublime, the scientific and the sacred, until all things, all beings, all ways of existing, become holy, touched by a God-centered gaze and attention. The poems are questions – like Job’s to God – and the questions are answered, yet one cannot, beyond the experience of the work itself, say how. It is a superb architecture, crafted by a brilliant poet. It is a vehicle through which the reader’s spirit can, at last, be set free, like the Sufi ’s through the whirl of the dervish dance. And like that God-touched whirling, these poems engender in the reader a deep stillness, a deep silence, a deep and abiding experience of peace and of prayer.

 

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“The Azimuth poems are questions – like Job’s to God – and the questions are answered, yet one cannot, beyond the experience of the work itself, say how. It is a superb architecture, crafted by a brilliant poet. It is a vehicle through which a deep spirit can, at last, be set free, like the Sufi’s through the whirl of the dervish dance. And that’s what I call this Azimuth of God series. Dervish poems.” – Helena Clare Pittman, A Grain of Rice

“As you pass through the words and images of these meditations, I pray you come to know, as I have, the Peace of God that surpasses all understanding.” – Laura Smith, C.S.J., Spiritual Director, Transformations Spirituality Center, Nazareth, Michigan

 

“The first time I read one of these poems, I found myself transported to another realm. Since then, I’ve read them multiple times. Each reading unearths another layer of wonder. Elizabeth marries the natural world and the spirit world, the mundane and the sublime, the scientific and the sacred, until all things, all beings, all ways of existing, become holy, touched by her God-centered gaze and attention. I find myself deeply and inexplicably moved by these words, weeping when reading about driftwood, ascending with the poet that ‘black trellis’ she imagines being climbed by the stars.” – Tawni Waters, Beauty of the Broken

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Veriditas Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0990425843
• ISBN 13: 9780990425847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88