Brooks — Outside the Church

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Outside the Church
by Dorothy Howe Brooks

 

Faith dances with apostasy in this collection of poems by Dorothy Howe Brooks. With welcome honesty, keen intelligence, and language as clean as a mountain stream, she takes us through familiar religious terrain–Scriptures, Christian tradition, questions regarding the nature of God and where that God may be found in this day, in this world–stimulating both the agnostic and the believer, with special attention to the women of the New Testament.

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Website: dorothybrooks.org

Brooks — A Fine Dusting of Brightness

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A Fine Dusting of Brightness
by Dorothy Howe Brooks

 

The title of this collection, A Fine Dusting of Brightness, also opens an extraordinary poem of literary description and exposition focused on Vermeer’s painting The Cook. These poems embody ekphrasis even when the subject of the poem is not a visual work of art. Many of the poems consider loss–the failings of age or sickness–and death, yet vivid observations become surprisingly juxtaposed images and skillful irony. [more]

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