Journey: New And Selected Poems 1969-1999 [Paperback]

Kathleen Norris has touched readers throughout America with her thoughtful and provocative memoirs of faith:Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, The Cloister Walk, and Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. She is equally admired for her poetry of engagement with the spiritual world and its landscapes.Journeyincludes poems from three previous books spanning thirty years, along with a generous selection of new work that continues her radically individual celebration of the sacredness of life.

Journeyincludes poems from three previous books spanning thirty years, along with a generous selection of new work that continues Norris's radically individual celebration of the sacredness of life.

“Norris, whose poetry collections includeThe Middle of the World, reached a wide audience with her prose memoirDakota: A Spiritual Geography. Readers of that book will recognize here her closely considered relationship with the prairie; her persistent and delighted spiritual questioning; her respectful identification with other women both ordinary and extraordinary; and her joy in stories. . . . Norris’s poems are characterized by generosity and compassion, as plain and spacious as the prairie life that has engendered many of them.”
--Publishers Weekly

“She has inherited [Emily] Dickinson’s view that the thing that inspires is the thing to be celebrated. The reader can often sense Ms. Norris’s sheer pleasure in writing.”
--New York Times Book Review

Kathleen Norris’s books of poetry includeThe Middle of the World, Little Girls in Church, and The Astronomy of Love. In addition to her best-selling memoirs (all listed asNew York TimesNotable Books), her most recent prose works includeQuotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and “Women’s Work,” The Virgin of Bennington(a memoir) and a childr