"We knew Koch, Guest, O'Hara, Ashbery, and Schuyler thrived on the gritty, buoyant clank of city life, but that they drew from a secret fountain there only the

Poet-essayist Charles Siebert writes the first urban pastoral--a meditation on nature in the tradition of "Walden" and "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" that leads inex

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Drawing on their research involving urban pastors from across the United States, Bryan Stone and Claire Wolfteich identify and examine spiritual practices that