Wrestling with the Angel - Paperback

by Jennifer M. Phillips (Author)

In Wrestling with the Angel, Jennifer M. Phillips invites readers on their own spiritual journeys of exploration, whether inside or outside the bounds of formal religion. She urges each to investigate bravely the delights, pains, and mysteries of life in this passing-away world full of hints and signals of larger meaning. These poems refuse to look away from doubt, death, and disappointment or to accept easy answers; instead, they peer under and through these universal experiences, scanning for traces of mercy, hope, tenderness, and joy. They ponder: What if God is like Scheherazade, spinning a Self-revealing story day after day to keep the door of relationship ajar? What if the essential human task is listening with reverent attention?

Author Biography

Jennifer M. Phillips, a much-published bi-national immigrant, gardener, bonsai-grower, and painter, has lived in five states, two countries, and now, with gratitude, in Wampanoag ancestral land on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Her chapbooks include Sitting Safe in the Theatre of Electricity (2020), A Song of Ascents (2022), and Sailing To the Edges (forthcoming 2025). Two of Phillips's poems were nominated for a Pushcart Prize.