{"product_id":"a-slender-grace-poems-9780802827821","title":"A Slender Grace: Poems","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Slender Grace\u003c\/i\u003e is Rod Jellema's first collection of poetry since his highly praised \u003ci\u003eThe Eighth Day\u003c\/i\u003e appeared almost twenty years ago. In this volume, which consists of 67 poems, almost all of them new, Jellema confronts a culture that loves bigness with poems that notice what is slender -- the thin lines, the threads by which some things hang, the narrow crevices through which divine grace offers to reconcile humans to each other and to the Creator. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese beautifully crafted pieces are not \"religious poems\" in the usual sense. As Jellema explains, \"These poems individually are not spiritual message-bearers. Still, it is inevitable that my belief in a beautiful world that is broken and divinely redeemed -- though I am not preaching about it -- should be evident throughout.\" And it is, as Jellema takes a second, deeper look at such things as green beans in all their glory, a lovesick lonely young man in a Laundromat, and his own sense of the world while snorkeling in the Red Sea. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328390893842,"sku":"9780802827821","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e887630b-b627-45a6-a55e-87bd54fd9a25.jpg?v=1727738120","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-slender-grace-poems-9780802827821","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}