Book Reviews

D.S. Martin’s Poiema & Sally Rosen Kindred’s No Eden

Everyone has a few, unforgettable first encounters with this or that poet. A few of these occasions come under the noblest circumstances (e.g. that instant you comprehended, in a flash, the whole Blakean cosmology). Others arrive in the “ig-noblest” moments

The Garbage Eater: Poetry for the Digital Age

Brett Foster is an academic poet. By this I don’t simply mean his work is difficult—which sometimes it is—but that his poems are often concerned with academic interests. For example in his poem “Tea with Mr. Milton,” Foster imagines meeting John Milton and discussing such things as Milton’s pamphlet

Tania Runyan’s Simple Weight

In her debut full-length poetry collection, Simple Weight, a finalist for the 2010 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, Tania Runyan (Ruminate contributor for Issue 16: Mapping This Place and Issue 21: Grief) distills, explores, and expands the weighty promise encapsulated in the Beatitudes and the relevance of that promise in our lives today. Her carefully arranged poems force us to slowly enter the

Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female & Evangelical

Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical is a colorful patchwork of “un-testimonies” sewn together by editor Hannah Faith Notess, but not for our comfort. These stories have been published to challenge the once-was-lost-but-now-am-found pattern within which so many evangelical Christians struggle to fit.

Radical Presence: Teaching as a Contemplative Practice