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| The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004 | 
 enlarge | Creators: Philip Zaleski, Jack Miles
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 706891
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0618443037
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.8038
UPC: 046442443036
EAN: 9780618443031
ASIN: 0618443037
Publication Date: October 14, 2004
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Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The latest addition to the esteemed Best American series is a collection of the best spiritual writing of the year, introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack Miles and including both prose and poetry. Series editor Philip Zaleski has chosen the volume's pieces with an eye to spirituality's many guises, from its impact on personal relationships and the environment to politics, creativity, and literature. Christian, Muslim, Jewish, secular, and pan-Hindu perspectives are all represented in these pieces, which have been selected from both mainstream and more specialized periodicals.
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If you don't find something you like, you justaren't trying. April 21, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Most people have at some level, an interest or curiousity in things that are considered 'spiritual'. Philip Zaleski has selected an excellent collection of essays and poems that reflect a wide range of spiritual-related ideas, musings, stories and expressions.
The number of essays is over twice that of poems but the volume of writing in the essays is probably fifty-fold that of the poems, so if you are looking for poetry, this is not the best source.
Keep in mind that the group is of 'spiritual' writing and not 'Christian', meaning that from essay to essay, idealogies will vary so much that at times you will wonder why they are even in the collection. Viewpoints move from naturalism to Buddism to Catholicism and more.
I found some of the essays very interesting. What will appeal to a different reader? It's hard to guess. But any reader with the slightest interest in things spiritual or spiritual people or other cultures are sure to find something he likes here.
Some of my favorites were:
The introdction
Physics and Grief
Judaism beyond Words
What The Blind See
As I said, the poetry is a relativly minor part of the collection. But of what was included, very little appealed to me.
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