Burning Bright: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry - Hardcover

William Blake, Louise Erdrich, Nelly Sachs, and sixty-four other poets past and present--Jews, Christians, and Moslems--explore the mystery, beauty, and power of faith in more than one hundred poems organized according to morning, noon, and evening.

are dark because
you do not know Him.
O day, go and learn from Him
what it means to shine.
Rumi
This extraordinary daybook of sacred poetry is for everyone, not only readers secure in their faith and those in search of it. It is a radiant, inspiring companion that invites us all to step, like Emily Dickinson, "upon the North to see this Curious Friend."
From the three great monotheistic religions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--Patricia Hampl has gathered more than a hundred poems of faith, of spiritual longing, of devout disbelief. And in the spirit of Western prayer cycles she has ordered them according to the time of day: Morning, Noon, and Night.
Burning Bright includes poems by Francis of Assisi, Yehuda Amichai, William Blake, Rumi, Louise Erdrich, Rainer Maria Rilke, Maria Tsvetaeva, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Nelly Sachs, Gharib Nawaz, Allen Ginsberg, and fifty-five others. Not only the deeply felt works of identifiably religious poets