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by Heather Lanier (Author)
"A powerful poetic reckoning with motherhood and religion." -Kirkus Reviews
"Poignant. Provocative. Downright hilarious. Heather Lanier is an incendiary psalmist and we love her for it." --Kate Bowler, New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved and Duke University professor How do we reconcile our love with our grief? Seek peace in a violent world? Find compassion for our rightwing neighbors? Psalms of Unknowing challenges the patriarchy with an eye on contemporary issues such as gun violence, household divisions of labor, and parenting in an uncertain world.Author Biography
Heather Lanier is the author of two award-winning poetry chapbooks along with the memoir, Raising a Rare Girl, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Malcolm Gladwell Next Big Idea Book Nominee. She writes at the intersections of spirituality, motherhood, and feminism, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Sun, TIME, Poets & Writers Magazine, Longreads, and elsewhere. Her essays have twice been noted in The Best American Essays Series, and her TED Talk, "'Good' and 'Bad' are Incomplete Stories We Tell Ourselves," has been viewed nearly three million times. She works as an Assistant Professor of creative writing at Rowan University, attends an Episcopal church and practices daily contemplative meditation.
