Twenty Poems to Pray

Drawing from the poetry of generations of esteemed writers Gary Bouchard shows how  poems often  express the longings of the human heart as a kind  of prayer. Emily Dickinson, Rev. Rowan Williams, Pope John Paul II, Christina Rossetti, Robert Frost, and Fr. Kilian McDonnell, OSB,  among others, offer readers an inspiring path to reflect upon and pray with poetic verse. Arranged under six engaging themes, each selection uses the words of poets as vehicles to prompt “heaven in