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A refreshing and often very funny account of the hands-on work needed to maintain a church and sustain its spirit. Episcopalian minister, Garret Keizer, takes his inspiration from the prophet Amos, a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees, who also had the calling as a shepherd of human souls. This profoundly contemporary book, set in Keizer's community of Island Pond in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, displays not only a knowledge of life's sm...

Garret Keizer's first book of poetry, is the winner of the 2018 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. The poems are mostly lyrical, often personal, and always accessible.

The noted "Harper's" essayist explores the paradox that we are human only by helping others--and all too human when we try to help.

An acclaimed writer investigates the hidden political, social, and environmental costs of that ancient phenomenon we call noise

Focuses on the moral dimensions of privacy in relation to "choice" and "equality." This book considers the evolution of the quintessentially American struggle to achieve it, which - along with the battles liberty and justice for all - has done much to define our recent history.

In this powerful, eloquent story, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocation in this arresting account of his return to the same rural Vermont high school classroom where he had taught 14 years before.

Succinct, passionate, and wise, here is one teacher's answer to the crisis ineducation and to the particular demands of his vocation.

When a group of high school seniors in Ira County, Vermont, decides to challenge the status quo with an act of civil disobedience, they bring about greater change than they bargained for.

A Vermont minister takes on anger as an inescapable, yet paradoxical, part ofhuman life and views the cluster of emotions and associations surrounding it.This literary, thoughtful, and sometimes-funny book will not fail to surprisewith its simple wisdom and keen insight. (August)