Leaping from the Burning Train: A Poets Journey of Faith Walker Jeanne Murray
Leaping from the Burning Train: A Poets Journey of Faith Walker Jeanne Murray This is a book about a girl who left home without quite meaning to. Then what to do with her familiar, immersive life:…
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Leaping from the Burning Train: A Poets Journey of Faith Walker Jeanne Murray
This is a book about a girl who left home without quite meaning to. Then what to do with her familiar, immersive life: Sunday School, church, prayer meetings, vacation Bible school, mother-daughter banquets, midnight vigils, revivals, and car washes?In college, she discovers the language of poetry. One evening, doing her algebra homework, the sixteen-year-old abruptly realizes the tight-knit fundamentalist community she has been raised in may not have all the answers it claims to have.
Ahead of her lies a career as poet, playwright, essayist, and teacher.Leaping from the Burning Train tells this story in loving and exuberant detail, without the self-righteousness that sometimes accompanies contemporary memoirs by those who have left It offers a path-through metaphor and imagery-that transcends the literalism and insularity of her childhood.
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