Grace Is Where I Live: The Landscape of Faith & Writing

by John Leax

Grace Is Where I Live has inspired--even mentored--many writers, readers and teachers during the decade since it was first published. Here John Leax shares the experiences that shaped his life along with insights on choosing writing as a vocation, successful and failed teaching, identifying a personal "poetic," writing in different genres, writing from "placedness" and writing for a particular community. He wrestles with the "questions that must be asked" and ultimately offers "good news" about the struggles, trials and rewards of the writing life. This new edition, marking the tenth anniversary of Grace Is Where I Live, includes the complete text of the original revised by Leax and expanded with a new preface, six recent essays, the poem "Vow" and a bibliography.

Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir

144 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2004

Reviews

[Clara Biesel · Rating 5 out of 5]

As grounding as I have always found Leax's work, this read through was especially lovely. I read it mostly sitting outside on a campus astonishingly similar to Houghton's, so the evocation of the importance of place was mimicked rather beautifully by the the place in which I read it. I especially appreciate his setting in stakes of gratitude, often in a list of nouns. (Is this where you get it, Tineke?) I also love the ways in which his immersion in the KJV pours out into his life-- I'm thinking particularly of the command not to worry about tomorrow as a call to care, not carelessness.

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful, inspiring, peaceful...

[Tim · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good collection of essay and poems about grace, place, and faith.