{"product_id":"9781944769307","title":"Kiss the Earth When You Pray: The Father Zosima Poems: Forty-Two Meditations and a Prayer","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of poems explores the confounding, restless joy of encountering the Holy; Father Zosima speaks of the elemental Love that surrounds us and the mystery that is closer to us than the air we breathe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Hudson has that quality, all too rare in evangelicalism, of embracing mystery and thus giving his readers that freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Philip Yancey, author, Where Is God When It Hurts? and What’s So Amazing about Grace?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf poets are “orators of the imagination” (Wallace Stevens), this immaculate collection from Robert Hudson is story oratory that stirs two kinds of imagination: the visual imagination of the human, the domain of dreams; and the invisible imagination of the divine, that flies us beyond the stars. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Leonard Sweet, bestselling author, Bad Habits of Jesus, professor (Drew University, George Fox University, Tabor College)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpare, even austere in their music and language, these elegant poems have their source in the imagination and wisdom of the Desert Fathers. The vision embodied in them is a vision of wholeness and hope. Warmly funny (some made me laugh out loud) and profoundly serious, they are poems I will be treasuring and reading for the rest of my life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—John Leax, author, Tabloid News and Recluse Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAchingly beautiful, these whispered words are embers, falling, rising. Then WHAM, I am staggered by their power. I will read this book again. I will send it to friends for special occasions and for just because. They too will read it again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Drema Hall Berkheimer, author, Running on Red Dog Road\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apocryphile Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019871174896,"sku":"9781944769307","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781944769307_p0.jpg?v=1763805241","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781944769307","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}