Altany / Ph.D. Poems to God

Christian Poetry of the Sacred
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 979-8-31781263-8
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Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 180 Seiten

Reihe: Poems to God

Poems to God (2025) focuses upon the idea that in both the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of existence and experience, there are intimations or only thinly veiled encounters with the sacred or that which is holy (especially what Christians believe to be God). It is an invitation to religious and non-religious people seeking meaning, purpose, and God.

Alan Altany has BA & MA degrees in Catholic theology, and a Ph. D. in religious studies (University of Pittsburgh). After an academic career, he is a semi-retired professor of Comparative Religions at a small college in Florida, USA. In the past he has also been the founder & editor of a small magazine of poetry (The Beggar's Bowl), a high school teacher, factory and lawn maintenance worker, hotel clerk, director of professional faculty development in universities, novelist, truck driver, etc. He has self-published four books of poetry: A Beautiful Absurdity (2022), The Greatest Longing (2023), Intimations (2024), and Poems to God (2025). His poetry has been published by Tipton Poetry Journal, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Valley Voices, Sand Hill Literary Magazine, The Hong Kong Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Montreal Review, St. Austin Review, and others. He writes with the steadfast support of his golden retriever, Zeke. Website: https://www.alanaltany.com/

Autoren/Hrsg.

Altany, Alan

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