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Diane Scharper
Book Review
Staying power: a poet’s place in God’s agenda
Book Review: Czeslaw Milosz did not consider himself to be a Catholic poet. But in his later years, he noted that all of his thinking had a religious aspect, and in that sense, he said, his poetry was also religious
Book Review
Armenia, Syria, the United States: stories of freedom
Book Review: Authors examine actions of ancestors, iconoclasts who defied odds, norms
Book Review
A memoir of loss and the natural world
Book Review: The author believes that seeing nature the way poets do is the only thing that’s going to save nature from destruction caused by overdevelopment, climate change, and pesticides.
Book Review
So little is known of St. Francis, biography is a fiction
NCR Book Club: Most people know the life story of Francis of Assisi, mystic, miracle worker, founder of the Franciscans and saint. At least, they think they know his story.