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    Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life: Poems
    Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life: Poems
    Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life: Poems
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    Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life: Poems

    By Nathaniel Lee Hansen

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    What does prayer look like in contemporary America? With a welcoming tone and plainspoken diction, the forty poems in Hansen's collection explore that question. Including elements of autobiography, Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life investigates Christianity in the present, depicting a faith in God that is continuously in flux. Readers journey through the seasons of the church year as Hansen recounts doubts, conversions, frustrations, and confessions. Ultimately, these poems are concerned as much with words as they are with the Word.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateJan 10, 2018
    ISBN9781532641152
    Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life: Poems
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    Nathaniel Lee Hansen

    Nathaniel Lee Hansen is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor where he edits The Windhover and directs The Windhover Writers’ Festival. His chapbook, Four Seasons West of the 95th Meridian, was published by Spoon River Poetry Press (2014). His poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in St. Katherine Review, Split Lip Magazine, Driftwood Press, Whitefish Review, The Cresset, Midwestern Gothic, Bluestem, The Evansville Review, and South Dakota Review, among others.

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      Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life

      Poems

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      Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life

      Poems

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      Names: Hansen, Nathaniel Lee, author.

      Title: Your twenty-first century prayer life : poems / Nathaniel Lee Hansen.

      Description: Eugene, OR: Cascade Books,

      2018

      | The Poiema Poetry Series.

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      Subjects: LCSH: American poetry—21st century.

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      I.

      Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life

      Some Sundays You Consider Leaping from the Ship of Church

      Reading Scripture

      Bad Sermons

      Prayer Diagnostics

      Hospitality

      Prayer ex Nihilo

      First Things

      Immobility

      II.

      The Canon

      Praying in Your Office

      Preschool Theology

      Decreasing Heat

      Adhering Plastic Film on Window Frames

      Poem as Prayer as Poem

      Before the

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