· “With humor and lyrical grace,” Kathleen Norris meditates on a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and 4/5(7). Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace, and Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, and Acedia amp; Me. A Benedictine oblate of Assumption Abbey for the past 30 years, Norris /5(). · A beautiful meditation on life in the Great Plains from award-winning author and poet Kathleen Norris. Kathleen Norris invites readers to experience rich moments of prayer and presence in Dakota, a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth. In thoughtful, discerning prose, she explores how we Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
35 likes. Like. "In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.". ― Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. tags: humor-living. 23 likes. Like. "To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.". Click to read more about Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Buy Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop now.
Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace, and Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, and Acedia amp; Me. A Benedictine oblate of Assumption Abbey for the past 30 years, Norris divides her time between Hawaii and South Dakota. I live in an American desert, without much company, without television, because I am trying to know where on earth I am. Dakota discipline, like monastic discipline, requires me to know. Kathleen Norris, Dakota. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography is the kind of book that I am often drawn to – a spiritual memoir about a life lived faithfully in a particular place, and that digs so deeply into its own circumstances that it invariably offers wisdom that is universal. In Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Kathleen Norris writes about the stark, scarcely populated landscapes of western North and South Dakota. Norris writes of a harsh and beautiful country, of small.
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