{"product_id":"a-pilgrimage-of-churches","title":"A Pilgrimage of Churches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003eFine Art Photography\u003c\/em\u003e edition, with premium high-resolution glossy photos\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Pilgrimage of Churches\u003c\/em\u003e arises from the landscape of the Great Plains, the people who live there, who work the land, and who worship together in community on the Sabbath Day. They hold a heritage of faith and devotion that is an American story. It is our story. The desire here is to tell it with a Quaker simplicity and sacramental sincerity as a part of an American family’s legacy and attentiveness. It is a story of remembrance too. In this effort, the work draws from a rich literary tradition that is uniquely American, one that emulates an elder artistic and liturgical language, which uncovers and animates the pastoral beauty on the earth and a people’s dedication to their belief. As a vision, the hope is to reveal its inhabitants and their history as persons of faith, celebrating an intimate connection with the land that flourishes still, helping to feed a 21st century world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRON STARBUCK\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Publisher\/CEO\/Editor of Saint Julian Press, a poet\/writer and photographer, an Episcopalian, and author of three books of poetry, \u003cem\u003eThere Is Something About Being An Episcopalian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWhen Angels Are Born\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWheels Turning Inward\u003c\/em\u003e, three rich collections of poetry, following a poet’s mythic and spiritual journey that crosses easily onto the paths of many contemplative traditions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe has been a contributing writer for \u003cem\u003eParabola Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. And has had poems and essays published in \u003cem\u003eTiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, an interview and poem in \u003cem\u003eThe Criterion: An Online International Journal in English\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Enchanting Verses Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eONE from MillerWords \u003c\/em\u003e(Feb. 2016), and \u003cem\u003ePirene's Fountain, Volume 7 Issue 15\u003c\/em\u003e, from Glass Lyre Press (Oct. 2014), and \u003cem\u003eLevure Littéraire \u003c\/em\u003e(France – 2017 \u0026amp; 2018).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A PILGRIMAGE OF CHURCHES \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewill take the Reader on a powerful and transformative journey far into the heart of old and devotional America: to where the inspired and believing once established their vision of a true Jerusalem and of their Christ upon the coastal plains of Texas and up northward onto the plains of Kansas. This book is a gentle masterpiece of perception and human record, bringing back to life a world that has vanished from our Twenty-First Century culture. Like an ancient, illuminated manuscript this book will deliver lightness and conviction into your hands and eyes. Starbuck is a master of poetic tradition and diction, and his delivery of these prophetic songs – which vividly and precisely depict a forsaken time – returns us to those sacred grounds. About the author himself we can most certainly say that, ‘his aim is true’.\" - Kevin McGrath, Harvard University, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the Kacch: A Memoir of Love and Place, \u003cspan\u003eStrī: Women in Epic Mahābhārata (Ilex Series), Jaya: Performance in Epic Mahabharata (Ilex Series)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"We all know the people of the Midwest have raised corn and crops forever, but they also raised churches, churches of many denominations, Methodist, Catholic, AME, Baptist, Lutheran. On his midwestern and western pilgrimage, Ron Starbuck found both images and words that capture the holiness in both sacred and secular places in the middle of America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this collection, it almost feels as if Ron Starbuck has caught time sleeping as he delivers up images that seem pulled not just from the center of the country, but from the middle of the last century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTime is stopped here and frozen, in the silvery light of these photographs, which alongside Ron Starbuck's poems that read like Biblical passages 'pour out a radiance, A great reverence' for these far-flung and spiritual places.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhether he is photographing tiny chapels and small-town clapboard churches or parking lots of John Deere tractors or plowed fields and pastures, these black and white images and liturgical-sounding poems evoke the same stark America as the WPA teams. Ron Starbuck is Walker Evans and James Agee rolled into one here, a new documentarian for a forgotten era of divine places.\" - Elizabeth  Cohen, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Family on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Love and Courage, The Hypothetical Girl: Stories\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Scalpel and The Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eCombines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526341644563,"sku":"9781733023399","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/img_proxy_bfdf6bf3-798b-4dd4-8e78-17ca66676855.jpg?v=1785851263","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/a-pilgrimage-of-churches","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}