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Incremental Life, An

Luci Shaw

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English
Paraclete Press
01 April 2025
""Luci Shaw is a legend"" --Christianity Today

This captivating collection of poems by beloved author Luci Shaw, reflects on daily ideas and activities as they arrive, bit by bit, to illuminate us with their wisdom and enlarge on the meanings of human experience. Like small messages from beyond, these incidents call us to pay attention.

In An Incremental Life, Shaw breathes life into the simpleness of the every-day and finds God in the memory of the mundane. Through her verses, she explores the intricate tapestry of existence, from the tender memories of childhood to the profound questions of mortality. Her poems are like windows opening to the soul, inviting readers to pause, reflect, and savor the beauty of the world around them.

INCREMENTS

I live by increments, single

breaths of an ambient air,

marking off hours, days.

Apprenticed to grace, I tread statio

in sequentiae,

edging every step

forward before venturing the next.

Staggering up towards the stony

crests of the foothills, dusty, I am

almost undone with weariness, only half

believing that the view will widen.

In my falling upward into your home,

O Faithful One, stay with me,

your wind music playing the ear of

my mind like an instrument.

""This is how life happens, one day at a time, in increments! And God is in each of them for us,"" Luci Shaw
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Imprint:   Paraclete Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm, 
ISBN:   9781640609792
ISBN 10:   1640609792
Pages:   96
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Luci Shaw was born in London, England, in 1928. A poet and essayist whose writing has appeared in numerous literary and religious journals, in 2013 she received the tenth annual Denise Levertov Award for Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University, and in 2023 she received the Kenneth N. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her lifetime of work in the Christian publishing industry. The author of over thirty-five books of poetry and creative non-fiction, since 1986 she has been Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver. She lives with her husband, John Hoyte, in Bellingham, WA.

Reviews for Incremental Life, An

""Luci Shaw's latest collection, An Incremental Life, illuminates the bright intervals in a cherished soul whose life's oeuvre hums with a perpetual, hopeful delight for our weary sojourners. In her ninth decade, Shaw's flourishing world of flora and fauna continues to bear fruit in the garden of her richly allusive, metaphorical imagination. Here is a poetry of musical wisdom and meaningful sustenance where the ""Faithful One"" plays ""the ear of / my mind like an instrument"" and blesses life's very small yet vital increments of experience, moments as ethereal yet embodied as ""single / breaths of an ambient air."" --Karen An-hwei Lee, author of The Beautiful Immunity and Duress


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