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Poetry. Jewish Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Goldberg. Moshe Dor's poems breathe, smell and taste like Israel. They express the pressures of living in a land constantly under siege, where hope and terror live side by side, where there is a fierce hatred of war and a fierce craving for peace. Here current events unfold in biblical landscapes. This is also a book about love--the love for a woman as well as a motherland. Cover art by Mordechai Ardon.

Poetry. The dark and bright of what it means to be human: McCabe examines this remorselessly, tenderly, and with a grain of "Sel," a thread of humor. PERPETUAL MOTION investigates who we are in a voice influenced by French poetry and painting, jazz, science, anthropology, and the wilderness itself. Says judge Gray Jacobik, "Her worldview--one of absolute unity fraught with infinite divisions, of great and ceaseless morphing--informs and shapes the sheer inventiveness, the wit, the passion of these lines. These are poems of moral complexity as well...wherein the poet considers the effects of hatred, rage, violence." Carol Frost adds, "With a different kind of loveliness...McCabe describes the things of this world. Popular culture, the theory of relativity, history, Magritte, higher math, religions, and philosophy are lenses to help us see, and McCabe's language attunes us to what for others is beyond hearing."

In her fourth collection, Jennifer Barber explores the facts and fascination of daily living as well as the greatest challenges of the spirit, and does so in a way that shows us the unbreakable connections between them. Says Afaa M. Weaver, "In The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made, we see the ecology of compassion and hopefulness, a fragile latticework made of the concern for how all things might fall away in a world seeming to be too full of loss. With a meticulousness like the Zen of poets in ancient China, Barber takes us to a place where we can believe there will always be a chance to breathe, even as we feel the terror of life in the beauty of its most minute details. These are finely crafted poems with turns on the torso of history and the times in which we live as if those things are a single tree of life, and they are. Barber teaches us how to know subtlety, how it can bring a fullness to us, a light without limits."

Poems that explore all layers of self and society take the reader around the world, into history, through motherhood, always asking not just why but for whom are we living.

DO YOU PANIC WHEN ASKED ABOUT YOUR CATHOLIC FAITH?Every baptized Christian is called to evangelize; yet many Catholics find personal evangelism intimidating. But it doesn’t have to be! In Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story, Nancy Ward shows you that evangelization can be simply a matter of letting others know how God has worked in our life.As Nancy explains the importance of being able to bear witness to God’s love by sharing your faith story, she shares her own story of lifelong conversion and shows you how to recognize the ways God has been drawing you closer to him throughout your life. You’ll also get ten tips on how to share your story in a way that is natural, effective, and un-intimidating.In the second part of the book, you’ll read more than thirty personal faith stories by Catholics from all walks of life—converts and “reverts,” clergy, religious, and layfolk who tell their own unique stories of how God has drawn them gradually closer into his loving embrace.If you’ve ever wished you could be a more effective witness to God’s truth and love, you can learn to share YOUR Catholic faith story. You have a story only you can tell, and someone needs to hear it!Don’t panic. Read Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story. Do the exercises. Learn to journal. Explore your story. Relive your God-moments of grace.  Write your faith bio. Craft a 30-second elevator speech. Keep in mind the ten tips for sharing your story.Be inspired. Take the Saint John Paul II challenge to be a new witness in the new evangelization, one of those people who has “experienced an area of change in their lives because of their contact with Jesus Christ, and who are capable of passing on that experience to others.” Saint Pope John Paul II.Fulfill your baptismal calling. Captivate those who inquire why you are so joyful. Live the directive of St. Peter, “Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence.” (1 Peter 3:15, 16)