Francis - A Life in Songs (Hardcover)

**LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD BOOK AWARDS 2019** A life of St Francis in verse Throughout her career Ann Wroe has constantly confounded expectations, following her own unique path. Now, in Francis, she turns to verse to tell the life of St Francis of Assisi. This is a sequence only Ann Wroe could write, combining a troubadour's musicality with full grasp of the moment, and a luminous sense of Francis as both myth and man, across history and culture, in nature and community. It is a remarkable and immensely beautiful book. St Francis was one of the most compelling spirits the world has seen. He was also a poet, a musician and a dancer. His world was coloured by troubadour lays, brightened by birdsong, ordered by the bells and chants of the Church and transfigured by the angel-lyres he heard about him. For Ann Wroe, this seems a good reason to write his life in songs. It is also an excuse to record, in songs, the many ways his presence and his music still linger round us. They surprise us in chance encounters in city streets; they waylay us amid the humdrum banalities of working life; they persist in the beauties of nature. Great spirits never leave us. They echo on and on.

General

Imprint:	Jonathan Cape
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2018
Authors:	Ann Wroe
Dimensions:	205 x 137 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-78733-148-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Religious & spiritual Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Books > Biography > Historical, political & military Books > Biography > Religious & spiritual
LSN:	1-78733-148-2
Barcode:	9781787331488

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