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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places by Eugene H. Peterson Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver The Collected Poems, 1957-1982 by Wendell Berry The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann Working the Angles by Eugene H. Peterson The Gold Cell by Sharon Olds
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I have a church-rummage faith—the kind that needs patching up every weekend.
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