Angels from the Hebrew and Christian traditions crowd the pages of this collection from Nancy Willard and Jane Yolen, poets who have chosen to wrestle with angels. The poems, written back and forth to each other over a period of several years, reveal close acquaintance with wild-winged souls like Lucifer, who fell, "Feathers like fingers / Clutching the air," and Gabriel, returning from the Annunciation; with the angel who visited Jacob Boehme, asking for shoes; and with the nameless cherubs at the manger. Angels in winter, in summer; angels with Aunt Fanny and among the servants; and angels who lament "the inconvenience of wings." With the luminous assistance of S. Saelig Gallagher's illustrations, the reader is truly Among Angels.
Source · Open Library
Contents
- 1Prayerpoem
- 2Pistis Sophia: A Dispatchpoem
- 3Angel Among the Herbspoem
- 4An Angel Considers the Naming of Meatpoem
- 5Every Visible Thingpoem
- 6Angels in Winterpoem
- 7Angel in Summer: West Virginiapoem
- 8The Mission of the Puffballpoem
- 9Namespoem
- 10A Carol for the Shepherdspoem
- 11An Angel Tells the Birds to Gather for the Great Supper of Godpoem
- 12Dancing with Angelspoem
- 13Aunt Fannypoem
- 14Harpo and the Angelpoem
- 15An Inconvenience of Wingspoem
- 16Angels Flypoem
- 17The Winged Onespoem
- 18Metamorphpoem
- 19Angel Featherpoem
- 20Angel in a Windowpoem
- 21Luciferpoem
- 22Easter Sermonpoem
- 23Harahel Writes on the Head of a Pinpoem
- 24Gabriel Returns from the Annunciationpoem
- 25Angelic Scriptpoem
- 26The Founding of Saint Andrewspoem
- 27The Lesson on Guardian Angels at Star of the Sea Elementarypoem
- 28The Twenty-Eight Angels Ruling in the Twenty-Eight Mansions of the Moonpoem
- 29Angels Among the Servantspoem
- 30Photographing Angelspoem
- 31Jacob Boehme and the Angel Ipoem
- 32Visitation in a Pewter Dish IIpoem
- 33Jacob and the Angelpoem
- 34Rabbi Loew and the Angel of Deathpoem
- 35Tobias and the Fishpoem
- 36The Archangel Michael Delivers a Sermon to the Starspoem