In her first book of poems, Ann Deignan escorts us through the Mythos Gate, a portal into the creative realm of the poet’s imagination in its habit of deep storytelling.

Largely inspired by the mythologies of the ancient world, Ann Deignan’s poems are like tender explorations into the depths of human experience as it can be read in heroic dimensions in the great stories of antiquity.

Ann Deignan is a contemplative poet who invites us to rest in the beauty and tranquility of language, even when her subject is the dynamic, shape-shifting mystery of impermanence spelled in an alphabet of migration. This second book of poems also contains a short story, and throughout we are summoned to move into a deepening awareness of how soul life is shared among an array of familiars who engage each other in a process of awakening to the transitoriness of existence. With delicacy of language Deignan elucidates the patterns we make in our wayfaring – from season to season, from shore to shore, from boundary to boundary – in our habits of migration.

Millions know Thomas Merton as the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, the autobiography that became an international bestseller and a modern spiritual classic. Merton, a prolific spiritual writer and social activist, inspired a generation from the silence and solitude of a Trappist monastery. Decades after his death, he remains a modern spiritual master, a source of wisdom on peace, racial harmony, poverty, alienation, and the engagement of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. Further Information »

Thomas Merton was the most popular proponent of the Christian contemplative tradition in the twentieth century. Now, for the first time, some of his most lyrical and prayerful writings have been arranged into A Book of Hours, a rich resource for daily prayer and contemplation that imitates the increasingly popular ancient monastic practice of “praying the hours”. Editor Kathleen Deignan mined Merton’s voluminous writings, arranging prayers for Dawn, Day, Dusk, and Dark for each of the days of the week. A Book of Hours allows for a slice of monastic contemplation in the midst of hectic modern life, with psalms, prayers, readings, and reflections. Further Information »

This title is available from Ave Maria Press.

Manual de mística y guía para la formación de la conciencia. Es la primera obra que organiza los escritos de Merton como fuente para la oración y la contemplación. Más información »

Reserva disponible de Sal Terrae.

One of Kathleen’s first books, ‘Christ Spirit: The Eschatology of Shaker Christianity’ is a beautifully written book, designed with care and understanding and described by the Theological Book Review as “…an important book, superbly produced.”

Further information at Scarecrow Press.