Iconography: a writer's meditation
When Susan Neville enrolls in an icon-painting in the cellar of an Indianapolis monastery, she begins a journey where saints are fabricated of mineral and wood, yolk and blood, earth and time. The process is tedious, and she begins to make mistakes, to become impatient; she doesn't feel ready for the challenge. To prepare herself, she makes a vow to write during the 40 days of Lent. What emerges is a journal, a meditation, a series of confessions we are invited to listen to as well follow her s…
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- Full title :Iconography : a writer's meditation / Susan Neville.
Summary
When Susan Neville enrolls in an icon-painting in the cellar of an Indianapolis monastery, she begins a journey where saints are fabricated of mineral and wood, yolk and blood, earth and time. The process is tedious, and she begins to make mistakes, to become impatient; she doesn't feel ready for the challenge. To prepare herself, she makes a vow to write during the 40 days of Lent. What emerges is a journal, a meditation, a series of confessions we are invited to listen to as well follow her sometimes painful attempts to reveal the truth and discover the mystery of her existence.
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- Publication Date:©2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication:Bloomington
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 211 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0253343224, 9780253343222, 0253216141, 9780253216144, 0253110726, 9780253110725, 1282071785, 9781282071780, 9786612071782, 6612071788
- oclc:ocn191818069
- LC Classification:PS3564.E8525
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
Table of Contents
Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Ash Wednesday, 2000 -- Buying Time -- A Vow -- A False Spring -- Confession -- I Am -- Housekeeping -- A Well-Lighted Place -- Vocation -- Inside This Skin -- In Memoriam -- St. Augustine -- Marriage -- Plague Sunday -- Monday -- Those Things I Didn't Know about Death -- Discipline -- On Place and Time -- Synchronicity -- Midpoint -- Dusk: Third Sunday in Lent -- On Fragility -- Children -- Wednesday -- On the Cusp between Wednesday and Thursday:1l:30-12:30-Waiting to Fall Asleep -- A Window into Radiance -- Sunday -- Grace -- Wednesday Once Again -- Witness.
Thresholds -- And So -- Frogs and Karaoke -- Palm Sunday -- On Rivers and Cherries -- Tuesday -- Midnight, Passover -- Wednesday -- Thursday -- Good Friday -- Saturday -- Sunday.
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