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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Marrow, Muscle, Flight

Marrow, Muscle, Flight

Boelhower, Gary J.

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 0984377743
ISBN13: 9780984377749
Publisher: Wildwood River
Published: Sep 9 2011
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Awards: Midwest Book Award (MIPA), Midwest Book Award (MIPA), Northeastern Minnesota Book Award
Marrow, Muscle, Flight chronicles the everyday infinite affections of a gay man interacting with his children, creating a home with and grieving the death of his partner, and finding again how the fierce river in the heart begins to flow. These poems celebrate the sacrament of the body and chant the rituals of longing and loss; they explore how each life is imprinted with family secrets, the journey of forgiveness, the long sigh of belonging, and hands that know each other by heart. Boelhower invites us to feel the soft wind full of salt from the infinite sea, hear the songs in our bones, hollow flutes for a symphony of luster, see white gulls dance their feathered alleluias down wide aisles of jubilant dawn. These poems evoke the courage to fling yourself open toward the horizon. Gary J. Boelhower, PhD is professor of theology and religious studies at The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, where he teaches courses in ethics, thanatology, spirituality, and leadership. He is the co-founder of the Center for Spirituality and Leadership at Marian University in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

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