Paraclete Press (ma) Amounting to nothing: poems, paperback/paul quenon

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After 60 years at Gethsemani Abbey, Br.

Paul follows up his recent memoir, In Praise of the Useless Life, with a poetic collection that shows how to do just that - by writing poetry.

Amounting to Nothing is both practical and metaphysical, a puzzling over the ultimate things of life, and a descending on the Benedictine ladder of humility to the earthly creatures surrounding a Kentucky monastery.

This is less an exploration in self-knowledge than a forgetting of self.