I will have to check that out too! And we have interacted through Close Reads. That is the point of connection. You prayed for my son when he was in the hospital last year, for which I remain grateful.
I have occasionally referenced the Mater Amabilis website. I have come across her poetry once before, a few of her poems were included in Well Read Mom a few years back. I really need to sit down with her book.
Since I only see your first name it is so hard for me to place from which circles I may know you, but I envision it looks like a Venn diagram! Well Read Mom is a great resource. I met Marcie at the Catholic Imagination Conference last year in Dallas and spoke with her quite a bit. She is wonderful and has such a vision.
Thank you, Zina! You chose a lovely poem. As my children have gotten a bit older (yet still 10 and under), I have found myself wistfully looking at babies in Church. I enjoy sleeping at night, but I also miss those nighttime feedings too. And I always enjoy meditating on the holiness of domesticity.
You are welcome! I really wanted to narrow down the right poem for you. I am glad you liked it. The whole collection is really lovely. Sally led an online Catholic homeschooling forum when I had to keep my boys at home while they were on medical leave (at different times). I didn't even know she was a poet... and then I got to read her work! What a gift!
I'm hard to impress, but hearing Sally Thomas read from her book at the Catholic Imagination Conference blew me away. She is an extraordinarily talented fiction writer, whose writing is laugh-out-loud funny to boot. This poem is also a revelation. It is not only a unique totally non saccharine meditation on the love of a nursing mother for her baby at her breast, it is also technically outstanding. Sally Thomas shines!
She is truly an excellent formalist poet. And it is important to see form in our contemporary language. To see how easily it can flow with skillful use of enjambment.
I will have to check that out too! And we have interacted through Close Reads. That is the point of connection. You prayed for my son when he was in the hospital last year, for which I remain grateful.
And my littles prayed every night at bedtime prayer during that time for him. So glad it was okay. (And now I see a last name!)
I have occasionally referenced the Mater Amabilis website. I have come across her poetry once before, a few of her poems were included in Well Read Mom a few years back. I really need to sit down with her book.
Motherland is a lovely book and her anthology (with fellow editor @Micah Mattix) is quite excellent.
Christian Poetry in America Since 1940
An Anthology
(https://a.co/d/aEzf8KI)
Since I only see your first name it is so hard for me to place from which circles I may know you, but I envision it looks like a Venn diagram! Well Read Mom is a great resource. I met Marcie at the Catholic Imagination Conference last year in Dallas and spoke with her quite a bit. She is wonderful and has such a vision.
Thank you, Zina! You chose a lovely poem. As my children have gotten a bit older (yet still 10 and under), I have found myself wistfully looking at babies in Church. I enjoy sleeping at night, but I also miss those nighttime feedings too. And I always enjoy meditating on the holiness of domesticity.
You are welcome! I really wanted to narrow down the right poem for you. I am glad you liked it. The whole collection is really lovely. Sally led an online Catholic homeschooling forum when I had to keep my boys at home while they were on medical leave (at different times). I didn't even know she was a poet... and then I got to read her work! What a gift!
I'm hard to impress, but hearing Sally Thomas read from her book at the Catholic Imagination Conference blew me away. She is an extraordinarily talented fiction writer, whose writing is laugh-out-loud funny to boot. This poem is also a revelation. It is not only a unique totally non saccharine meditation on the love of a nursing mother for her baby at her breast, it is also technically outstanding. Sally Thomas shines!
She is truly an excellent formalist poet. And it is important to see form in our contemporary language. To see how easily it can flow with skillful use of enjambment.
You're her friend. :-) Tell her I send my deep admiration!
Of course!