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    Days and Times: Poems from the Liturgy of Living
    Days and Times: Poems from the Liturgy of Living
    Days and Times: Poems from the Liturgy of Living
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    Days and Times: Poems from the Liturgy of Living

    By Paul K. Hooker

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    These poems seek to be playful with faith. Their aim is to expose the underlying sacredness of events that form the liturgy of living and to do so with sensitivity toward mystery, wonder, and occasionally suspicion. Some of them seek to tell stories left untold by the narratives of faith; others prod the narratives of ordinary life to see where faith may be hiding. These poems do not understand faith as an intellectual choice but rather as an involuntary trust in something beyond us, something always unclear, ill-lit, and inadequately characterized by the language religious people use to describe ultimate realities. They seek not so much to dismantle that language as to subvert its self-assuredness, to find words that surprise and compel different ways of seeing.
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    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateMay 2, 2018
    ISBN9781532650130
    Days and Times: Poems from the Liturgy of Living
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    Paul K. Hooker

    Paul K. Hooker is an ordained Presbyterian Minister and currently Executive Presbyter, Presbytery of St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Florida.

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      Days and Times - Paul K. Hooker

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      Days and Times

      Poems from the Liturgy of Living

      Paul K. Hooker

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      Days and Times

      Poems from the Liturgy of Living

      Copyright © 2018 Paul K. Hooker. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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      paperback isbn: 978-1-5326-5011-6

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      ebook isbn: 978-1-5326-5013-0

      Manufactured in the U.S.A.

      The following poems in this collection have been previously published: In Medias Res in Austin Presbyterian Seminary’s 2016 Lenten Devotional: It Is No Small Thing, in Austin Presbyterian Seminary’s 2017 Lenten Devotional; Prescription for Pentecost in Windows; We Pass Through Waters On the Way in Insights: The Faculty Journal of Austin Seminary; At the Font, The Space Between, Excavations and Exhumations: The Thirty-Two-Foot Principle, and Woodwork in The Presbyterian Outlook; A Prayer Before Advent and Silence Falls in the internet edition of The Presbyterian Outlook; When It Isn’t There and Green in Poetry Breakfast (online poetry journal); and Pilate’s Afterthought and Adventus in Ecclesio.com (online journal).

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      First Thoughts: An Introduction

      Holy Days

      I Seek the Shining Darkness

      Mr. H’s Ordination

      It Is No Small Thing

      Compline

      Gods of Small Things

      A Prayer Before Advent

      Adventus

      Silence Falls

      Little God of Aleppo

      Christmas Eve, Room 727

      Christmas Cinquain

      This Time

      Centurion’s Epiphany

      Beside the River

      The Ash Wednesday Song

      In Medias Res

      Gathered

      Absent Moons

      Pilate’s Afterthought

      Judas’ Soliloquy

      Woodwork

      Lament

      The Second Day

      The Space Between

      In the Land of Nod

      Refugee

      Beside Himself

      The Dream-Coat: Issachar’s Tale

      Prescription for Pentecost

      All Saints

      Ordinary Time

      On My Imaginary Mountain

      Lonnie Lavender Plays Kickball

      They Were Soldiers

      Old Horse

      Vigil

      Daedalus, Afterward

      Afterward

      When It Isn’t There

      Once You Were Gone

      I Do Not Know Depression

      Insomnia

      Excavations and Exhumations

      Eclipse

      The Perseids

      Hard Rain

      Green

      Four Short Poems at Sunrise

      Eve

      Boatman and Child

      At the Font

      What He Believed

      We Pass Through Waters on the Way

      For Pat

      for whom mere words will never be enough

      The morning air is all awash with angels.

      —Richard Wilbur

      First Thoughts: An Introduction

      In these poems I have tried to pose, directly or indirectly, questions of faith and to explore them with an eye toward mystery, wonder, and occasionally suspicion. Some of these poems are an effort to tell the stories left untold by the narratives of faith. Some of them poke and prod the narratives of ordinary life to see where faith may be hiding itself.

      I have come to think of faith not as a series of intellectual choices but as an involuntary trust in something beyond me, something almost always unclear, ill-lit, and mostly inadequately characterized by the language religious people use to describe ultimate realities. For most of my life, I have used that language, too. But lately I have noticed within me an impatience with things about which I was once sure. The propositional language of theology, simplistic assertions of faith, and reified ethics of ecclesial life no longer seem trustworthy to me. I am fascinated with darkness and uncertainty and more willing to be wrong than I have ever been. Strangely, however, it seems to me not that I have lost faith but have only just begun to find it.

      Many of the poems in this volume fall into a classification I would call theo-poetry. The term is not original to me. As I understand it, theo-poetry refers to the poetizing of an existing

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