Houston: Press Release - For immediate
release October 16, 2017. Saint Julian Press proudly presents a new collection
of poems by David Brendan Hopes, which will be available on October 27, 2017
through fine book distributors and retailers.
Praise for PENIEL
PENIEL is a new collection of contemplative poetry arising from a
relationship with the mystery of creation and with the Creator. A kind of
radical invocation, PENIEL, summons sacred images and Persons long known across
human history, and issues a very contemporary invitation to Divinity to enter
and remake our lives. These poems
serve as a remembrance that we are "People of God," in a direct,
forceful poetic language that inspires and transforms.
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The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, / . . . Engine against th' Almighty," George Herbert
might have said of these poems, for surely he would have been as astonished and
moved as I was by their intensity and range and daring. Who knew an inner life
could be this rich? Imagine that God came to you once at night ––
"It was otherwise at first. There was the body that came / by the risen
moon and again before morning," and then imagine him unaccountably turning
away and growing distant and deaf. These are the cries that would pour from
that wound if we had David Hopes' remarkable gifts: songs of rage and desire,
songs of remembrance and lament, songs begging and bargaining and growing
still, above all songs of love--"love abundant, / love unspent,
untarnished, rising wave-like / till the sea is drowned." PENIEL is a modern daybook of Psalms,
with all of their broken, hurt-into-vision grandeur. It is also, and at the
same time, a work of great calmness and craft –– it is, one would
say, turning to Herbert again to find words to describe its hold on the reader,
"something understood.” Thomas Gardner,
Professor of English, Virginia Tech John in the Company of
Poets: The Gospel in Literary Imagination |
“David
Brendan Hopes consecrates his book as a site of revelatory power, inviting his
readers to join him in wrestling with the hardest questions of human existence
— the problems of suffering and evil, the mysteries of beauty and grace.
Hopes sings of these things with a prophetic honesty and clarity of vision, and
so the mercy he finds is hard–learned and all the more profound.
Throughout PENIEL readers will catch
glimpses of the face of God.”
Evan Gurney – Assistant
Professor of English at University of North Carolina Asheville
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David Brendan
Hopes was born in Akron, Ohio, and has lived in Asheville, North
Carolina–where he is Professor of English at UNCA– since 1983. In
addition to being a poet, he is a fiction and non-fiction writer, a painter, an
actor, and a widely produced playwright. PENIEL
is his fourth full-length collection of poetry. |
Author's photo from a performance of "As You Like It".
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Now Available for Pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Available through ~ IndieBound ~ Ingram Content Group ~ Amazon ~ Barnes & Noble ~ Fine Book Distributors
& Retailers
PENIEL by
David Brendan Hopes * ISBN-13:
978-0-9986404-5-7 * ISBN 10: 0-9986404-5-X
Saint Julian Press, Inc. * 2053 Cortlandt, Suite 200 *
Houston, TX 77008 * Ron Starbuck ~ Publisher-CEO
Phone: 281-734-8721 * Email: ronstarbuck@saintjulianpress.com * www.saintjulianpress.com
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