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Far Out! by Anne Bustard5/11/2023 Andrew Roycroft, pastor/poet and author of 33: Reflections on the Gospel of John Beautiful, hopeful, honest, true to the grain of grace-this is a book to open the heart and the eye, giving us back marvel and joy in the land of the living. (in itself a hard-wrought skill), a transparency of heart, and an unwavering belief in the transcendent that lingers in this imminent realm. The art of the poems is their appearance of unworked candour These are poems that are ardently porous to the wonders of the world, insistent on its plain poetic beauty, unafraid of its mystery. They bring inward and outward illumination to our eyes and to our hearts, encouraging us to hope, love, feel, to reach out again, and again." Artist Ross Wilson says, "These poems exalt the wonders of the everyday, wonders we so often neglect. These poems were written from October 2020-October 2023, while the author was dealing with the reality of cancer and the hard side effects of fighting it. It is a collection of around eighty poems in various forms-free verse, tanka, and ekphrasis. The Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living is Leslie Anne Bustard’s first poetry book. The Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living: Selected Poems by Leslie Anne Bustard
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