Weak Devotions
poems
Published on 2. September 2011
80 pages
978-1-4982-6980-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Weak Devotions, his first poetry collection, Luke Hankins engages with great honesty the difficulties and uncertainties inherent in the spiritual life. Far from seeking mere "self-expression," Hankins has honed these explorations into tightly knit meditations and monologues that will resonate with the deepest questions and longings of readers of all backgrounds.
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09/2011
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Luke Hankins is the author of a collection of poems, Weak Devotions, and a collection of essays, The Work of Creation. He is also the editor of Poems of Devotion: An Anthology of Recent Poets. His latest book is a collection of translations from the French of Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, A Cry in the Snow & Other Poems (Seagull Books, 2018). Hankins is the founder and editor of Orison Books, a non-profit literary press focused on the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Part One: A Shape with Forty Wings
- Earthly Kingdom
- Louisiana
- Inventory
- Blood
- The Fact
- When I Was a Child, I Reasoned as a Child
- Pissed On
- Intimations
- Elusive Animal, Carry Me
- A Shape with Forty Wings
- Part Two: Babel's Child
- Babel's Child
- Floccinaucinihilipilification
- Born at Sea
- Birth
- Ache
- Newspaper Photo
- I Shocked the Hills
- Beautiful Anyway
- Portrait of Myself as a Barbarian
- The Death the Sun Will Die
- Please Follow the Instructions
- Herald
- The Sorrow of My Father
- Lament
- Failure
- A Broken Song
- Eager Prophet
- The Voice of One Crying Out
- Last Request
- Part Three: Weak Devotions
- Weak Devotions (I.-XV.)
- Part Four: The Voice of One Crying Out
- Choirmaster
- Sojourner's Prayer
- Patient's Prayer
- Conductor's Prayer
- Dancers' Prayer
- Hedonist's Prayer
- Amateur's Prayer
- The Old Preacher Prays
- Tendency
- Wisteria
- Notes
- About the Author
