Other Ways: Rescuing the Church from Pharaoh and Other Poems

Rich, complex, exciting, confusing, life, death, and beyond—all words to capture a bit of truth about this very rich, complex world inhabited by all kinds of individual particles emerging into flora, fauna, animals of all kinds, including humans who together make up a unity. This book is my attempt to celebrate the unity and the diversity. Poetry hints of an openness to complexity while certainty tends to become restrictive dogma. Other Ways means to hint that full meaning, complete certainty, is beyond any human capacity ever to establish. Poetry intends to celebrate the richness that is to be enjoyed even though never fully comprehended.

Peter Keese is an Episcopal priest and a clinical pastoral educator (certified by The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc.). He is the author of Jesus Has Left the Building and Being There; he is widowed; and he lives near Nashville, Tennessee, near his daughter and granddaughters.