Struck Dumb with Singing Jane Greer but a prairie creek in

but a prairie creek in May: clear water moving lightly over smooth stones

If we are living stones to be built into a spiritual house

all across the world

and short hymn-like pieces

The study’s masterful weaving of history

Struck Dumb with Singing Jane Greer but a prairie creek inSchessers poems are alive with rapture for earthscapes brimming with the divine as she travels in the company of Hopkins and Roethke and Jacques Maritain, working a clutch of words stumbling through a universe in praise of undeviating love. John Balaban, Lamont Prize winner, author of Empires LeighAnna Schessers Struck Dumb With Singing delivers an incantatory, spiritual journey through beautifully rendered pastoral poems: What claw and talon beast of