Description
Pushcart Press founder and editor of the annual Pushcart Prize series — author of a novel and six memoirs — Bill Henderson is an elder in his local church and a close reader of the Bible. He received the National Book Critics Lifetime Achievement Award, the Poets and Writers/Barnes &Noble Writers For Writers citation and an award for Distinguished Service to American Arts from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Family Bible, his first collection of poetry, is a plain-spoken and heart-felt distillation of his lifelong struggle to maintain his faith. The poems are funny, bitter, eloquent, tortured, touching, wise, blasphemous, and reverent.
Utterly compelling…This should be a classic.
— Joyce Carol Oates, author of Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction (2000)
You will love this book.
— Peter Gomes, Harvard Divinity School, author of Simple Gifts: One Man’s Search for Grace (2006)
I read Cathedral with admiration, affection, and gratitude.
— Wendell Berry, author of Cathedral: An Illness and A Healing (2014)
