Francis and Clare in Poetry: An Anthology

Francis and Clare in Poetry: An Anthology. Edited by Janet McCann and David Craig. St. Anthony Messenger Press, 173 pp., $14.95.

From Dante to Wordsworth to Gerard Manley Hopkins to Thomas Merton to contemporary poets (many of whom have appeared in the CHRISTIAN CENTURY), the poets featured here have been touched in some way by the story of St. Francis, the most beloved Catholic saint, and his contemporary St. Clare, the founder of the Poor Clares. Both embraced a life of poverty and piety, and both offer alternative mystical visions even for (maybe especially for) those anchored in the ways of this world.

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