A Strange Catechism

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
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Author: Justen Ahren ISBN: 9781483653952
Publisher: Xlibris US Publication: June 25, 2013
Imprint: Xlibris US Language: English
Author: Justen Ahren
ISBN: 9781483653952
Publisher: Xlibris US
Publication: June 25, 2013
Imprint: Xlibris US
Language: English

Every day she comes and stands, turning slowing, counterclockwise, in the parking lot. She holds in her arms a bundle of infants clothes. She is praying, calling for her departed child to return to the nest of her body.

In A Strange Catechism, Justen Ahren relates the story of a mother and her surviving son, as they journey through grief, lose and separation to a deeper understanding of how life is constructed out of what our fingers keep making in the air/ until dawn those fleeting things we long for, made real by our longing and our praying for them.

The poems in Justen Ahrens Strange Catechism are songs whose music exists to make beauty out of profound sadness. They are rhythmic, empathic, and polyphonic but behind each one is a voice who says hello to darkness and then sings to itall the while wondering about golondrinas and the hydrangeas blue clouds, all the while wondering if the world without [him]/may be the real one.

--Jennifer Tseng

This collection contains the voice of a poet whose work aches with beauty. The poems are characterized by the paradox of austerity as abundance and religious mystery as lucidity. In Justen Ahrens search for grace we find poetry of excellence.

--Jennifer Clement

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Every day she comes and stands, turning slowing, counterclockwise, in the parking lot. She holds in her arms a bundle of infants clothes. She is praying, calling for her departed child to return to the nest of her body.

In A Strange Catechism, Justen Ahren relates the story of a mother and her surviving son, as they journey through grief, lose and separation to a deeper understanding of how life is constructed out of what our fingers keep making in the air/ until dawn those fleeting things we long for, made real by our longing and our praying for them.

The poems in Justen Ahrens Strange Catechism are songs whose music exists to make beauty out of profound sadness. They are rhythmic, empathic, and polyphonic but behind each one is a voice who says hello to darkness and then sings to itall the while wondering about golondrinas and the hydrangeas blue clouds, all the while wondering if the world without [him]/may be the real one.

--Jennifer Tseng

This collection contains the voice of a poet whose work aches with beauty. The poems are characterized by the paradox of austerity as abundance and religious mystery as lucidity. In Justen Ahrens search for grace we find poetry of excellence.

--Jennifer Clement

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