Meditations at Midnight

Name: Meditations at Midnight
Brand: Loyola Press
SKU: 458886
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Author: Gary Jansen
ISBN: 9780829458886

By: Gary Jansen

Loyola Press / 2024 / Paperback

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Few books can confront you with the tragic beauty of your own humanity while simultaneously elevating you to a vantage point from which you can objectively contemplate mankind’s absurdity and brilliance. Meditations at Midnight by Gary Jansen is such a book. Jansen’s stories, verses, and musings are at once familiar, startling, dreamy, funny, and nostalgic. He pays homage to his favorite writers, including Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Ernest Hemingway, Emily Dickinson, and Paulo Coelho. This is a book you can devour in one sitting or dip into for a thought or theme that suits your mood. Meditations at Midnight will awaken or inspire your love of literature.

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Title: Meditations at Midnight
By: Gary Jansen
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 96
Vendor: Loyola Press
Publication Date: 2024

Dimensions: 6.00 X 5.00 (inches)
Weight: 2 pounds
ISBN: 0829458883
ISBN-13: 9780829458886
Stock No: WW458886

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Dive into the profound and poetic world of humanity's paradoxical beauty and absurdity with Meditations at Midnight by Gary Jansen—a literary feast that ignites your love for books and leaves you pondering life's mysteries.

There are few books that can bring you face to face with your own humanity with all its tragic loveliness and at the same time lift you so high above it that you are able to dispassionately examine mankind’s absurdity and brilliance. Meditations at Midnight, by Gary Jansen, is such a book. Jansen’s stories, verses, and musings are at once familiar, startling, dreamy, funny, and nostalgic. He pays homage to his own favorite writers from Jack Kerouac to Stephen King to Ernest Hemingway to Emily Dickinson to Paulo Coelho and more. This is a book you can devour in one sitting or flip open and just nibble on a thought or a theme that suits your mood. Meditations at Midnight will awaken your love of literature--or inspire it.

Author Bio

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Gary Jansen is a popular speaker and the author of several books, including the multi-award-winning MicroShifts, The 15-Minute Prayer Solution, Station to Station, Life Everlasting, and the memoir Holy Ghosts. Jansen has appeared on A&E, the Sundance Channel, the Travel Channel, Coast to Coast AM, CNN.com, and NPR. His writing has been featured in the Chicago Sun-Times, USA Today, Huffington Post, Thrive Global, Angelus, and Religion Dispatches. Jansen worked at Penguin Random House for 25 years where he was the editor on several New York Times bestsellers. He is now the executive editor of acquisitions at Loyola Press.

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"Both explorer and conductor of dreams and possibilities, Gary Jansen's unique sense of detail magically guides us to worlds of wonder, unconditional love, and promise. It is here between these pages that innocence is remembered, imagination is stretched, and hope is restored. Simply put, these are the words, the stories, of a beautiful mind." -- J. Ivy, author of Dear Father and Grammy winner for The Poet Who Sat By the Door

"The sacred and the profane sit side by side in this…confident…collection of poems."
–Kirkus Reviews