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The Shunning
Published in Paperback by Turnstone Press (1984)
Author: Patrick Friesen
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Painful, achingly beautiful picture of faith, and its fading
Friesen stuns with potent, disturbing images, and awakens a yearning for the sacred. His book, which is actually one long poem, is a masterpiece. Friesen captures a longing long denied us--a thirst for a faith--and firmly pulls the reader into this story of a Mennonite farmer's destruction. The farmer is excommunicated (shunned) by his church for questioning an aspect of the Christian faith. The story is told through the eyes of the farmer's brother, usually, but occasionally we see through the eyes of the wife, the children, the townspeople, and, perhaps, a distanced, clinical god. Before this work is dismissed as yet another "to hell with Grandpa's religion" book, it is important to note that the book pays no attention to the validity of the farmer's quandry, but instead focuses on the pain, the isolation, and the loss, of a solitary man in his microcosm


Blasphemer's Wheel: Selected and New Poems
Published in Paperback by General Distribution Services (1995)
Author: Patrick Friesen
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The Breath You Take from the Lord
Published in Paperback by Harbour Pub Co (2002)
Author: Patrick Friesen
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A Broken Bowl
Published in Paperback by Brick Books (1997)
Author: Patrick Friesen
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Carrying the Shadow
Published in Paperback by Beach Holme Pub Ltd (1999)
Author: Patrick Friesen
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Flicker and Hawk
Published in Paperback by Turnstone Press (1987)
Author: Patrick Friesen
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St. Mary at Main
Published in Paperback by Shillingford J Gordon Pub Ltd (2000)
Author: Patrick Friesen
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A Sudden Sky: Selected Poems
Published in Paperback by Brick Books (2001)
Authors: Ulrikka S. Gernes, Patrick Friesen, and Per Brask
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Unearthly Horses
Published in Paperback by Turnstone Press (1984)
Author: Patrick Friesen
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You Don't Get to Be a Saint
Published in Paperback by Turnstone Press (1992)
Author: Patrick Friesen
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