New And Selected Poems, Volume 2

BY MARY OLIVER
Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since New and Selected Poems, Volume One. "Oliver's poetry is of the Earth, and about the Earth, and as these poems give voice to the planet, they render human life more beautiful, more sentient, more meaningful." -Karen McCarthy

Beacon Press 2007 178 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Nikki Giovanni 2009 Address - Video Dvd

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
This is a video DVD version of Nikki Giovanni's 2009 FGC Gathering plenary address. This DVD includes bonus material from Giovanni's afternoon Gathering Store presentation. Poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni reflected on her lifetime of joy and struggle, love and grieving, hope and spirit. Giovanni believes in the power we each have to make a difference in ourselves, and thus in others' lives.

Quaker Press of FGC 2009 VIDEO DVD Audio

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection - Audio Cd

Written And Read By Nikki Giovanni

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
A collection of 50 new poems, sketches, and meditations, this is quintessential Giovanni, plenary speaker at the 2009 FGC Gathering. She is one of the most celebrated and prolific artists of modern times. Edgy, unapologetic, and intimate, she charts new territory, turning her pen to popular culture and life in America. Unabridged. 2 CDs.

Caedmon 2002 2 CDS Disk

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Nikki Giovanni's 2009 Plenary Address - Audio Cd

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
This is an audio CD version of Nikki Giovanni's 2009 FGC Gathering plenary address. Poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni reflected on her lifetime of joy and struggle, love and grieving, hope and spirit. Giovanni believes in the power we each have to make a difference in ourselves, and thus in others' lives.

Quaker Press of FGC 2009 AUDIO CD Audio

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Nikki Giovanni's 2009 Address - Mp3

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
This is a downloadable mp3 version of Nikki Giovanni's 2009 Gathering plenary address. When you purchase it, after we confirm your credit card details, we will send you a limited time link through which you can download the audio file. Poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni reflected on her lifetime of joy and struggle, love and grieving, hope and spirit. Giovanni believes in the power we each have to make a difference in ourselves, and thus in others' lives.

Quaker Press of FGC 2009 AUDIO MP3 Audio

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Peacework Quilt

365 Meditative Offerings

BY JUDITH PERRY CARPENTER
A collection of poetic meditations on her spiritual journey. "I enjoyed reading this wise and gentle book. Judith Carpenter's warm-hearted approach to the spiritual life both nourishes your spirit and invites you to go deeper. This book will be helpful to anyone looking for soulful accompaniment on the journey towards a deeper peace" Catherine Whitmire Quaker and author of Plain living: A Quaker Path To Simplicity

Seafire Press 2009 243 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Poesia De John Greenleaf Whittier / Poems Of John Greenleaf

BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY SUSAN FURRY AND BENIGNO SANCHEZ-EPPLER
Whittier used his poetic gift to express his understanding of worship and Friends understanding of the Divine .This dual language edition, richly annotated with explanatory notes and Bible references, opens these nine selections from his poetry to Friends throughout the Americas. Includes "El Culto" (The Meeting), "del primer dia" (first day thoughts). Has English text and translation on facing pages.

New England Yearly Meeting & Mosher Book and Tract 2009 41 PP. Paper

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The Poetry Of John Greenleaf Whittier

A Reader's Edition

EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM JOLIFF
Joliff, Professor of English at George Fox University, has selected 55 of Whittier's poems with the intention of turning Quaker readers into fans of the poet. A biographical and critical introduction and the identification of themes in introductions to each section are important guides.

Friends United Press 2000 275 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Prayers To Protest (10103)

Poems That Center & Bless Us

EDITED BY JENNIFER BOSVELD
SECONDHAND. Good condition. Edited by Jennifer Bosveld. Anthology of liberal religious, earth-centered, eastern, and a variety of points of view. Poems on political, spiritual, relationships, life-journey, and other subjects. Includes Antler, Jeanne Lohmann, Daniel Mills, Rebecca Baggett, Annie Finch, over 100 others.

Pudding Hill Press 1998 229 PP. Paper

$12.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Red Bird

BY MARY OLIVER
A collection of 61 new poems, including a cycle of eleven linked love poems. The pages overflow with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, but the poet's attention turns with ferocity to the degradation of the Earth and the denigration of the peoples of theworld by those who love power. Red Bird is unquestionably Mary Oliver's most wideranging volume.

Beacon Press 2009 96 PP. Paper

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Selections From The Religious Poems

Of John Greenleaf Whittier

BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
A collection of Friend Whittier's poetry which "makes plain the interior landscape that shaped Whittier's spiritual growth, his witness against the evils of his time, and his personal struggle to leave the work of judgment to God." - from the introduction

Tract Association 2000 84 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Strong Is Your Hold

With Cd Of Poems

BY GALWAY KINNELL
Here is the eleventh book of poems by Galway Kinnell, whom the New York Times has called "one of the true master poets of his generation." In this striking and various collection, he gives us poems of intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations of sexuality, poems about his father, his children, poet friends, poet heroes, and mythic figures. Included also is "When the Towers Fell," his stunning requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.The book's title derives from Walt Whitman's "Last Invocation": "Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold O love."

Houghton Mifflin 2006 66 PP.+ CD Cloth

$4.50 (in stock)

Swan

Poems And Prose Poems

BY MARY OLIVER
"Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we are of the world she captures here so vividly: the acorn that hides within it an entire tree; the wings of the swan like the stretching light of the river; the frogs singing in the shallows; the mockingbird dancing in air. Swan is Oliver's tribute to "the mortal way" of desiring and living in the world, to which the poet is renowned for having always been "totally loyal."

Beacon Press 2010 96 PP. Cloth

$20.70 (in stock)

Thirst - Paperback

BY MARY OLIVER
Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems, each exhibiting the power and grace that have become the hallmarks of Oliver's work. This volume includes poems on crickets, toads, trout lillies, bears; on greeting the morning, watching deer, and, finally, on lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet at the height of her power, considering the everyday in our lives and finding reasons to marvel at all around her.

Beacon Press 2007 88 PP. Paper

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Tracing The Rainbow

BY MARY HOXIE JONES
The daughter of Rufus Jones, after graduating from Haverford she accompanied her parents around the world, while her father lectured at various international gatherings. The highlight of the trip being a visit with Gandhi in India. From 1927 to 1939 she worked for various Quaker organizations in the Philadelphia area. In 1939, she joined AFSC to coordinate the Friends Centers in Europe during wartime and helped prepare her fathers papers for his autobiography. She published four books of poetry, four of history. This her last book of poetry, Tracing the Rainbow, was published in 1995.

Golden Quill 1995 71 PP. Cloth

$4.50 (in stock)

The Truro Bear And Other Adventures

Poems And Essays Paperback

BY MARY OLIVER
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris, brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver's classic poems, and two essays all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit crabs, and, of course, her beloved but disobedient little dog, Percy.

Beacon Press 2008 80 PP. Paper

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Understanding Fiction

Poems, 1986-1996

BY HENRY TAYLOR
In his first poetry collection since winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Flying Change, Quaker poet Henry Taylor beautifully renders the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and vocation. Often using the craft of writing as a metaphor for the examined life, Taylor explores with wry wisdom the slow-dawning awareness of our evanescence. In Understanding Fiction we find gentle regret for time spent dabbling, time spent away from the work that should rightfully claim our passion. Indded to understand the fictions with which we cloak our endeavors is ultimately to make what peace we can with the "consequences of ignorant choices."

Louisiana State University Press 1996 64 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Unglobed Fruit -poems

BY ESTHER GREENLEAF MURER
Esther Greenleaf Murer is a member of Central Philadelphia MM, and has been writing poetry since the age of 6. Her poetry has appeared in Friends Journal, Types & Shadows (of which she was founding editor), and the anthology The Best of Friends. She will be represented in the forthcoming anthology, Gathered: a Quaker Poetry Anthology. She compiled the pamphlet Beyond Uneasy Tolerance: The saga of Quaker and the arts in 100 quotations, and translated 4 novels by Norwegian Jens Bjorneboe

Lulu 2011 87 PP. Paper

$11.00 (in stock)

Walt Whitman

Selected Poems

BY WALT WHITMAN
This collection brings together Whitman's greatest and most famous poems spanning the whole of his career. From the groundbreaking first edition of Leaves of Grass are seven poems, including "Song of Myself" and "I Sing the Body Electric."From later editions there are such masterpieces as "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

Orion Publishing 2002 135 PP. Cloth

$6.95 (in stock)

Walt Whitman's Spiritual Epic

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 395

BY MICHAEL ROBERTSON
Walt Whitman's celebrated 1855 poem "Song of Myself" was an astonishing new poetic venture in its language and style as well as in the values and spirituality it expressed. The poet, Whitman believed, was to be the high priest of a new, democratic religion. Whitman was inspired by the progressive religious ideals surging through Quakerism and other spiritual movements. With particular attention to the perspectives of Friends, Robertson walks the reader through "Song of Myself," noting its beauties, its challenges, and its deep inspiration. (Discussion questions included)

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2008 36 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Why I Wake Early

New Poems

BY MARY OLIVER
Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems, each exhibiting the power and grace that have become the hallmarks of Oliver's work. This volume includes poems on crickets, toads, trout lillies, bears; on greeting the morning, watching deer, and, finally, on lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet at the height of her power, considering the everyday in our lives and finding reasons to marvel at all around her.

Beacon Press 2005 88 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)