The Grand Array: Writings on Nature, Science, and Spirit

The Grand Array is a stunning collection of 18 essays by widely published and highly acclaimed poet Pattiann Rogers. Written over a span of 25 years, these essays show Rogers daringly yet delicately laying out her vision of the essential unity and interdependence of science, spirituality, the arts, and the sensual experience of the physical world. Composed in an anecdotal and lyrical — but never dogmatic — style, The Grand Array takes us on a journey that both celebrates human existence and questions many of our basic concepts about nature, god, and the importance of faith. Regard for the awe-inspiring but sometimes raw mysteries of nature underlies Roger’s writing. At its heart, her message is celebratory und unifying — and as such it’s particularly relevant in today’s fractured world. Rogers calls on us to understand and move beyond the limitations of our knowledge in order to embrace the vastness of the cosmos and the place of humans in its "grand array."

Pattiann Rogers is the author of more than fifteen books of poetry and prose, including Wayfare, Firekeeper, Generations, and the forthcoming Holy Heathen Rhapsody. She has been widely anthologized and published in the New Yorker, Orion, the Paris Review, Wilderness, the New Republic, and many other journals. She is the recipient of two NEA grants, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and five Pushcart Prizes and has been a visiting writer at numerous universities and colleges. Her papers from 1965 to 2010 are archived in the Sowell Collection at Texas Tech University. She lives with her husband, a retired geophysicist, in Colorado.