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Kathleen Norris (1) (1947–)

Autor(a) de The Cloister Walk

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22+ Works 8,913 Membros 116 Críticas 24 Favorited

About the Author

Kathleen Norris is the award-winning author of "Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith"; "The Cloister Walk"; & the forthcoming "The Virgin of Bennington". She lives in South Dakota & Hawaii. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Obras por Kathleen Norris

Associated Works

Mere Christianity (1952) — Prefácio, algumas edições26,044 exemplares
My Ántonia (1918) — Prefácio, algumas edições13,537 exemplares
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Contribuidor — 774 exemplares
Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (2004) — Contribuidor — 757 exemplares
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991) — Contribuidor — 397 exemplares
Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Contribuidor — 370 exemplares
Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible (1994) — Contribuidor — 223 exemplares
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
God with Us (2007) — Contribuidor — 137 exemplares
Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (1986) — Contribuidor — 103 exemplares
Tremor Of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints (1994) — Contribuidor — 92 exemplares
The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World (2001) — Contribuidor — 89 exemplares
Revelation (Pocket Canon) (1997) — Introdução, algumas edições75 exemplares
The Best Spiritual Writing 1999 (1999) — Introdução — 69 exemplares
Sister to Sister (1995) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening (2004) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Inheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest (1993) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Trappist [1997, Documentary] (1998) — Featured — 7 exemplares

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Norris's memoir of her time at Bennington College, where she became engaged with poetry, which led her to New York City, where she encountered many of the groundbreaking poets of the day, including Jim Carroll, Denise Levertov, Gerard Malanga, Erica Jong, James Merrill, James Wright, and Stanley Kunitz.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | 6 outras críticas | Jan 17, 2024 |
Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered around a rigid schedule of prayer, work, and scripture? This is the question poet Kathleen Norris asks us, somewhat to her own surprise, she found herself on two extended residencies at St John's Abbey in Minnesota. Part record of her time among the Benedictines, part meditation on various aspects of monastic life, The Cloister Walk demonstrates, from the rare perspective of someone who is both an insider and outsider, how immersion in the cloister world, its liturgy, its ritual, its sense of community, can impart meaning to everyday events and deepen our secular lives.… (mais)
 
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PendleHillLibrary | 31 outras críticas | Nov 2, 2023 |
Blending history, theology, story, etymology, and memoir, Amazing Grace a Vocabulary of Faith is a journey through language to faith, with each word serving as the occasion for an examination of a particular aspect of the Christian Lexicon.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | 15 outras críticas | Sep 27, 2023 |
strange vocabulary & our faith
 
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SrMaryLea | 15 outras críticas | Aug 23, 2023 |

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Obras
22
Also by
22
Membros
8,913
Popularidade
#2,696
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
116
ISBN
159
Línguas
3
Marcado como favorito
24

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