The Yearning Life: Poems by Regina Walton

By Regina Walton

“These are meditative poems that appear to upward push from a protracted and deep lifestyles, in its so much traditional and general moments. They invite us into the gaze, suggesting how the surfaces of items could display greater truths when you comprehend to attend and beauty. those pages name us to contemplate our lives as ‘lent via the secret and borrowed back,’ because the poet places it, exhibiting us what craving may require—and yield.” —Mark S. Burrows, Editor for Paraclete Poetry

With the book of this identify, Paraclete Press publicizes the 1st winner of the Phyllis Tickle Prize in Poetry which honors our longtime pal and advisor.

Regina Walton's poetry has seemed in Poetry East, Soundings East, qarrtsiluni, placing free, Scintilla (UK), and is impending within the Anglican Theological overview, Spiritus, and humanities. In 2013 she acquired a PhD in faith and literature from Boston collage, and has released educational essays at the seventeenth-century priest and poet George Herbert, on early sleek English liturgy, and on theological aesthetics. An Episcopal priest, she serves as pastor and rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Newton, MA.

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