Lost Gospels

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Lost Gospels is written by Lorri Neilsen Glenn and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1894078772 (ISBN 10) and 9781894078771 (ISBN 13).

In the opening poem of Lost Gospels, Lorri Neilsen Glenn writes of Mahalia Jackson and Blind Willie Johnson: ... they sang, oh yes, they raised light from dark water, dug diamonds out of the cold, cold ground ... . In a sense this is what Neilsen Glenn herself achieves in this deeply moving third book: raising light from dark water. Her new collection confronts the deaths of dear friends and family members, returns to her prairie childhood and youth, and engages hard, hard questions of mortality, and of existence in a world fraught with suffering and violence (both global and domestic). Central is the poetic sequence "A Song for Simone" -- a conversation between the poet and French mystical philosopher Simone Weil. Here is poetry reaching out to embrace a manner of being in the world that at once moves beyond the world and engages it fully. Lost Gospels confirms Neilsen Glenn as a poet of maturity, depth and power.