Charles of the Desert is a novel-in-verse about Charles de Foucauld, a French cavalry officer whose travels in Morocco in 1883 spark his spiritual awakening. Seeking an identity that balances his zeal, faith, and ambition, he reinvents himself again and again, becoming a Trappist monk in Syria, then a gardener for Poor Clare nuns in Israel, then a priest and lexicographer in Algeria. Here, in the desolate Hoggar Mountains, he builds a mud house and chapel near the nomadic Tuareg and other Saharan peoples. What follows is the gripping story of a man who devotes himself to radical compassion and comes to see the Tuareg as his brothers, the desert as his earthly home.

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William Woolfitt is author of the poetry collection Beauty Strip and the fiction chapbook The Boy with Fire in His Mouth. His poems and stories have appeared in Gettysburg Review, The Threepenny Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Epoch, Blackbird, Image, and other journals. He is an assistant professor of English at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, and the recipient of the Howard Nemerov Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

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