Title:
The best spiritual writing 2002
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Philip Zaleski ; introduction by Natalie Goldberg.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : HarperSanFrancisco, c2002.
Physical Description:
xix, 277 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780060506032
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author:
Contents:
Preface / by Philip Zaleski -- Introduction / by Natalie Goldberg -- Winter music : a composer's journal / John Luther Adams -- To keep alive / Marvin Barrett -- All -- The fact -- The answer / Wendell Berry -- Gamboling with God / Harvey Cox -- The making of an American Swami / Sara Davidson -- Leap / Brian Doyle -- Ground zero : a journal / Vincent Druding -- Writing : the interpreter of desires / Robert Eddy -- What are you afraid of? / Joseph Epstein -- A dream of solstice / Seamus Heaney -- Where I was / Patricia Hooper -- L'Chaim and its limits : why not immortality? / Leon R. Kass -- Heaven and earth / Heather King -- Gospel / Philip Levine -- The naturalist / Barry Lopez -- The ironic stance and the law of diminishing returns / Bret Lott -- The Muslim Gandhi / Bill McKibben -- To the words / W.S. Merwin -- Prayer / Czeslaw Milosz -- The dead of September 11 / Toni Morrison -- The kiss of Judas / Alicia Ostriker -- The wives of Gloucester / Susan Pollack -- Born of a rib / Pattiann Rogers -- Screwtape instructs Scrapetooth / Amy Schwartz -- Higher education / Gary Smith -- Of larger darkness / George Steiner -- What kind of errand? / Ptolemy Tompkins -- One man on a tractor far away / Walter Wangerin Jr. -- The oneness of music / Wallis Wilde-Menozzi -- Biographical notes -- Notable spiritual writing of 2001 -- A list of former contributors -- Reader's directory -- Credits.