Habitation of Wonder is an offering of poems that travels the intersection of the natural landscape and the landscape of spirit. Here, the moon is a «white comma / in the breath of space.» Crocuses are «ephemeral prophets, first of the sun's spring projects.» The ocean is «a vast / perpetual sacrifice on the altar / of the shell-glittering shore.» The collection opens with «Genesis,» a reimagining of the creation story with song as the divine instrument of creation. Five themed sections flow from «Genesis» like a musical thread, investigating the material elements from which we originate and in which we take shelter, as well as the gifts of language and faith, which make us more than merely «a constellation of salts.» In its own way, each poem invites the reader to «tenant beauty»–as well as to tenant uncertainty. When beauty and uncertainty collide, they spark wonder. As these poems suggest, wonder is simply another name for the world in which we live–and the world that lives in us.
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Abigail Carroll. Habitation of Wonder
Habitation Of Wonder
Table of Contents
Genesis (I)
Canticle (I)
The Calling
Make Me River
The Way A Fish
Learning To Pray
Make Me Chalice
Thalassic
M Is for Mary
Heron
Vespers
May
Habitation of Wonder
Make Me Sheet Moss
Maine
That I Might Dwell
Hallowed Be
Concession
Make Me Willow
The Glassed World
Make Me Cello
March, Vermont
Matins
Flyers and Singers
Kingdom of the Air
Make Me Red-tailed Hawk
In Gratitude (I)
Genesis (II)
Enterprise
Cumulus
A Short History of Light
Ode to Onions
Swinging
Orchard
In Gratitude (II)
Retreat
Possession
Ode to the Passive Voice
Infinitive
In Gratitude (III)
What Men Die For Lack Of
Ministry of Snow
In Objection
Grammar Lesson
Spring Forward
In Gratitude (IV)
Toward A Winter Retreat Packing List
Reading Hopkins at the Auto Repair
Before the Shape-Note Sing
Canticle (II)
Make Me Plow Blade
Genesis (III)
Offering
Psalm
How to Prepare for the Second Coming
Inheritance
Prayer
Benediction
Creed
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Abigail Carroll
Poems are windows into worlds; windows into beauty, goodness, and truth; windows into understandings that won’t twist themselves into tidy dogmatic statements; windows into experiences. We can do more than merely peer into such windows; with a little effort we can fling open the casements, and leap over the sills into the heart of these worlds. We are also led into familiar places of hurt, confusion, and disappointment, but we arrive in the poet’s company. Poetry is a partnership between poet and reader, seeking together to gain something of value—to get at something important.
