ABOUT Margie McreLess Roe Margie M. Roe was born in Ft. Worth, Texas, with roots deep in Methodism, but was always interested in her mother’s stories of life as a Catholic at St. Theresa’s Academy in San Antonio. While working on her M.A. in English at S.M.U. in the sixties, she became influenced by the thought coming out of Perkins School of Theology. She eventually married a Methodist minister. Such background has led to an interest in the God-question and reading in existentialism, feminism, process theology, and Eastern religions. | ||||||||||
Call and Response978-1-931247-56-6 $15 Writing of Margie McCreless Roe’s first book, Flight Patterns, Naomi Shihab Nye said that Roe’s “finely crafted, carefully-perceived poems call us to full attention, restore a precious balance in our seeing and listening. They infuse and sustain.” Call and Response, Roe’s second collection of poems, does just that. Whether she is speaking of a young boy’s first experience with the wildness of nature or a restaurant with a misspelled sign that reads “God Eats Café,” Roe’s eye focuses on what is transcendentally important in our lives. This is not pop spirituality nor conforming religiosity, but a poetic response, wittily wry and probing, to the daily lived sense of the divine in all of us.
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Waves Under Me
This constant shifting— an obituary, the moon’s silence above You need sea legs to get from |
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