Endless Life ─ Poems of the Mystics

From Saint Paul to Julian of Norwich, Scott Cairns has lovingly examined, pressed for for the revelation, and set in verse the most memorable, beautiful sayings of the fathers and mothers of Christianity. The startling result is a fresh encounter of ancient wisdom and provocation.

These poems are unified in a common claim that Love is the most compelling name of God and the most apt attribute of the Holy One in whom we live and move and have our being. In that spirit Cairns offers "a mere taste of the bountiful feast that awaits any who would pursue a life of faith and prayer equipped with both the holy Scriptures and the holy tradition that surrounds them."

Librettist, memoirist, translator, and author of seven poetry collections,?Scott Cairns?is Professor of English at University of Missouri, and is founding director of Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki/Thasos, a program now in its seventh year bringing students—as well as unaffiliated writers—to Greece every June.? His poems and essays have appeared in?Poetry,?Image,?Paris Review,?The Atlantic Monthly,?The New Republic,?Prairie Schooner, etc., and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of?Best American Spiritual Writing.? He is a regular blogger for the Religion Section of?The Huffington Post, and contributes a podcast,?Flesh Becomes Word, for Ancient Faith Radio.??He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.? His new projects includeDescent to the Heart, a new translation of excerpts from the Greek?Philokalia.