The Book of Uncommon Prayer
The author of Private Atlars offers a collection of eloquent prayers that resist fashionable themes while celebrating the uniqueness of heartfelt supplication, combining poetry, spiritual lyric, and monastic tradition.
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Arranged to parallel the eight "hours" of the liturgical day - matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers and compline - Mosby's poetry fuses joy, fear, love, anger, and desire in a rich celebration of the heart's search for meaning in everyday life. Liberating prayer from the constraints of traditional contexts and using poetry to "invest the prosaic with the profound," her work illuminates the longing for transcendence at the core of the spiritual path. The Book of Uncommon Prayer invites both the literary reader and the seeker of a more spiritual life to begin a personal quest for grace.
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