TY - BOOK AU - Zaleski,Philip TI - The best American spiritual writing 2010 SN - 9780143116769 SN - 1555-7820 AV - PS509.S62 B47 2010 KW - Spiritual life KW - Literary collections KW - Periodicals KW - American literature KW - 21st century N1 - Vols. for 2004- Edited by P. Zaleski; The leopard on the mountain path / Pico Iyer -- The thisness of what is / Diane Ackerman -- Dante's The Inferno, Canto I: a new translation / Mary Jo Bang -- Fire Season / Rick Bass -- The God of the Gaps / David Berlinski -- The judgment of memory / Joseph Bottum -- Is Google making us stupid? / Nicholas Carr -- The aging Maria / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Searching / Billy Collins -- The Dalai Lama spends the night / Chrisi Cox -- Before the storm / Louise Gluck -- The whisper of love / Seamus Heaney -- Vinegar and oil / Jane Hirshfield -- The kingdom of the eternal heaven / Paula Huston -- The return of ?The snow leopard? / Pico Iyer -- Prince of the ascetics / Charles Johnson -- Chosenness and its enemies / Jon D. Levenson -- Words on the wind / Philip Levine -- Our buried sentiments / Wilfred M. McClay -- Secularizations / Richard John Neuhaus -- The procession / Robert Pinsky -- Scriptorium: The Lindisfarne gospels / Melissa Range -- The god of the desert / Richard Rodriguez -- I hear and behold god in every object, yet understand god not in the least / Pattiann Rogers -- Contemptus mundi and the love of life / Amanda Shaw -- Ezra Pound in a spring storm / Floyd Skloot -- Why beards? / Meir Soloveichik -- The writer in winter / John Updike -- Ring the bells / Leon Wieseltier -- The measuring worm / Richard Wilbur -- The wanderer / Master Sheng Yen ER -