{"product_id":"forty-days-in-the-wilderness-wandering-9781646626052","title":"Forty Days In the Wilderness, Wandering","description":"\u003cp\u003eMapping moments of deep attention and wonder, \u003cem\u003eForty Days in the Wilderness, Wandering \u003c\/em\u003einvites its readers to contemplate the natural world, sacred wilderness, and devotional wandering through the 2020 Lenten season and the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLargely composed in conjunction with walks through Wisconsin's national forests and state parks, the collection began as a Lenten intention - a creative response to Muthupandiyan's desire to find the divine in a world that has largely destroyed wilderness - the natural places which, within many religious traditions, devotional wandering has historically occurred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeveral days into the project, however, the themes of wilderness and devotional wandering took on new depth and urgency while the COVID-19 pandemic took hold and the world began collectively negotiating its way through various spiritual, emotional, and physical deserts of solitude, bewilderment, alienation, and fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of the poems and illustrations included within this collection was written and drawn during the first forty-five days of quarantine. The collection serves as a writer's journal on the deep wilderness and profound time of spiritual formation that humanity entered as the pandemic took hold. Read together, they chart a poetic apogee from joy to grief, exultation to death, desire to love without hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoems and illustrations from this collection have also appeared in \u003cem\u003eChitro Magazine \u003c\/em\u003eand the anthology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSheltering With Poems: Community and Connection During Covid \u003c\/em\u003e(Bent Paddle Press)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuthupandiyan, Megan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Meg Muthpandiyan's poems and illustrations have appeared in various print and online journals, including Chitro Magazine, Great Lakes Review, Bent Paddle Press, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Stone Highway Review, Chicago Literati, and Wisconsin Poetry Journal.","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50383171453202,"sku":"9781646626052","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ec8e7096-75b4-4746-8284-8739d7413ee1.jpg?v=1728780179","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/forty-days-in-the-wilderness-wandering-9781646626052","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}