The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle

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Crown Publishing Group, Feb 4, 2009 - Poetry - 400 pages
From the beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time comes the definitive edition of her inspirational and timeless poetry, featuring more than 200 original poems, a new Foreword by Sarah Arthur, and a new reader’s guide by Lindsay Lackey.
 
Madeleine L’Engle’s writing has always translated the invisible, quiet corners of our hearts into a vivid, stunning experience. Her fiction invites readers into new universes while her spiritual memoirs unveil the tenderness and resilience of the human spirit.

In her poetry, L’Engle’s craft proves just as striking, as she traverses the full breadth of the soul with her words, intimately exploring the contours of hope, doubt, and love. “It is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words,” she says of her poetry. “And then it is written to be shared.” Open-hearted and vulnerable, The Ordering of Love is a meditation on beauty, loss, faith, and devotion.

“A prayerful and powerful portrait of a writer who served her work, and served it well. May we strive to do the same.” —Sarah Arthur, from the Foreword

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Contents

Peter
277
From Ephesus
292
The Baptism of Easter 1966
306
Sonnet 1
319
Sonnet 2
320
Sonnet 3
321
Sonnel 4
322
Sonnet 5
323

grow older
79
On Valentines Day for a Saint Most Misunderstood
87
All That Matters
102
Rejoice
117
Come Lord Jesus quickly come
130
Lovers Apart
140
After Annunciation
153
Corinth
167
Sonnet After Thomas
177
From A Cry Like a Bell 1987
191
Rachel At Josephs Birth
205
Son of Moses
218
From Psalm 32
225
O Sapientia
239
The Samaritan Woman at the Well
252
Simon of Cyrene
264
Sonnet 6
324
Sonnet 7
325
Sonnet 8
326
Sonnet 9
327
Sonnet 10
328
Sonnet 11
329
Sonnet 12
330
Sonnet 13
331
Sonnet 14
332
Iona 1
333
The Donkey
334
The page is torn from a journalthough not mine
336
Editors Note
339
Index of Titles
340
Index of First Lines
347
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About the author (2009)

Madeleine L'Engle was the author of more than forty-five books for all ages, among them the beloved A Wrinkle in Time, awarded the Newbery Medal; A Ring of Endless Light, a Newbery Honor Book; A Swiftly Tilting Planet, winner of the American Book Award; and the Austin family series of which Troubling a Star is the fifth book. L'Engle was named the 1998 recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards award, honoring her lifetime contribution in writing for teens.

Ms. L'Engle was born in 1918 in New York City. She wrote her first book, The Small Rain, while touring with Eva Le Gallienne in Uncle Harry. She met Hugh Franklin, to whom she was married until his death in 1986, while they were rehearsing The Cherry Orchard, and they were married on tour during a run of The Joyous Season, starring Ethel Barrymore.

Ms. L'Engle retired from the stage after her marriage, and the Franklins moved to northwest Connecticut and opened a general store. After a decade in Connecticut, the family returned to New York.

After splitting her time between New York City and Connecticut and acting as the librarian and writer-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Madeleine L’Engle died on September 7, 2007 at the age of 88.

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