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• W4379781662 abstract "I've Read Too Much Poetry for That: Poetry, Personal Transformation, and Peace Anita Hooley Yoder You could say that I am a poetry convert. That is, I have been converted over and over again not by preachers or professors or prophets, but by poets. For me, literature—especially poetry—has channeled new ways of believing and being, bursting open my understanding of what is true and just. (Is this heretical? But I feel God smiling down on me.) I did not need poetry to convert me to belief in Jesus. That came through my committed family, my loving church, and my prayers around the fire at summer camp. I also didn't need poetry to convert me to the way of peace. My Mennonite upbringing, my study at Church of the Brethren and Quaker seminaries, and my frequent interaction with peace‐loving folk took care of that. But it was through poetry that I learned how to enter, if just for a moment, someone else's psyche and worldview and rich internal life. And once there, I found my own perspective beginning to change. I am convinced that such a personal transformation, such an encounter and expansion, is a crucial element in the quest for peace, inside and outside of our churches. The careful words and wide sensibilities of poets like Mary Oliver, Rumi, and Julia Spicher Kasdorf helped change my mind (or perhaps, to be more precise, helped me own my developing views) about important personal and theological issues that are also, at their core, peace issues. These poets converted me to the idea that to follow a fully peaceful path, to be someone who embraced the world with warm, welcome arms, I needed to reconsider (or simply consider) topics that received little helpful attention from my church tradition—topics related to the queer community, religions other than Christianity, and the complexity of my own religious heritage. I suppose it happened first with Mary Oliver. She was, I think, the first poet who really changed me. I met her work in my late teens (and it felt like a meeting, an encounter, as if someone had pushed through the page to speak with me). I remember picking up her New and Selected Poems, Volume 1, with its lavender binding and cover picture of an ordinary‐looking woman in a pullover sweater. It was the first book I ever bought from a bookstore at full price with my own cash. Oliver's words soon became like a second set of scriptures for me. I read them when I woke up in the morning and before I went to bed at night. I memorized them during long walks in the woods, speaking their rhythm in time to the plodding of my feet, pausing to notice the trees and the turtles in the poem and in the world. When I heard that my normally indefatigable mother was struggling, I sent her one of Oliver's poems, hoping it would help her, like the poem's addressee, hear her own voice, a voice that …kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world determined to do the only thing you could do— determined to save the only life you could save. When my younger sister wondered about her place in the world, I used Oliver's words to assure her: Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting— over and over announcing your place in the family of things. I found in Oliver's work a refreshing but honest honoring of the self. “You do not have to be good” I read, and exhaled, as if I hadn't for minutes or months. But I also smiled in knowing at these lines: You aren't much, I said one day to my reflection in a green pond, and grinned. Oliver used the stuff of the natural world to pose surprisingly stark questions, questions that called me both deeper in and wider out: “Who made the world?…/Who made the grasshopper?/This grasshopper, I mean…” “Have you ever tried to enter the long black..." @default.
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• W4379781662 title "I've Read Too Much Poetry for That: Poetry, Personal Transformation, and Peace" @default.
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