Tag: Abigail Carroll

  • The Lightness of Abigail Carroll

    The Lightness of Abigail Carroll

    She has a knack for going to the deep and sometimes difficult heart of things without flinching and yet returning with something like uplift and joy. There is a lightness verging on flight to her images and words. And a reassuring faithfulness in her discipline of witness.

  • The Dream-bent Farmer: Poetry

    ‘What is this world but a seed of desire some dream-bent farmer sowed in a field waiting for the end of winter, waiting to be getting on with business of timothy and clover?’ —Abigail Carroll, ‘Spring Forward’ God is a dream-bent farmer sowing the seed of desire.  Time leaves us this task.  It is time’s…