The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers

by Regina Siegfried, Jessica Powers, Robert F. Morneau

Book Overview

This book is a reprint of the most extensive anthology of this noted Carmelite poet, which she approved five weeks before her death. Includes introduction by Bishop Morneau, chronology, bibliography,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935216685
• ISBN13: 9780935216684
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: ICS Publications
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 1.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

soul stirring

The poetry contained in this book is so beautiful and its thoughts and wanderings fill your heart with joy (even the ones about spiritual dryness!). I use this book in meditation and sometimes I can not even finish one poem because my heart is leaping within! Thank the Lord for the gifts He has given us through the words of such a wonderful poet and mystical soul!

Echoes of mystics from the past

Reminds me a little of Emily Dickinson, a little of her contemporary, Thérèse de Lisieux. I was surprised to see that Jessica Powers was an elderly nun-so uninhibited in expressing how in love she was with God!

Reads My Soul

This book has poetry that describes the experiences we all have felt at some time in our Spiritual lives. As I read some of the poems it expressed what I had felt or was feeling so accurately I felt I was reading my own soul. Her poems lend themselves to be used for prayer & meditation with ease and they truly uplift the soul.