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As the volume’s title suggests, my recurring motif is “the wall.” It reflects the confrontation between dreams and reality, between individual and institution. It also depicts my sense of estrangement following my immigration from Poland to the US in 1988. Finally, it echoes my struggle with the idea of God against the experience of religion and world’s theodicy. Probing the wall’s nature, I gradually come to realization that the wall is part of human nature. Ultimately, I always strive to affirm life - to reach beyond the wall.
This title is published by eLectio Publishing and is distributed worldwide by Untreed Reads.
As the volume’s title suggests, my recurring motif is “the wall.” It reflects the confrontation between dreams and reality, between individual and institution. It also depicts my sense of estrangement following my immigration from Poland to the US in 1988. Finally, it echoes my struggle with the idea of God against the experience of religion and world’s theodicy. Probing the wall’s nature, I gradually come to realization that the wall is part of human nature. Ultimately, I always strive to affirm life - to reach beyond the wall.
This title is published by eLectio Publishing and is distributed worldwide by Untreed Reads.
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The Wall & Beyond - Joanna Kurowska
Table of Contents
Copyright Information
Acknowledgments
A Note of Appreciation
It
* * * (In Ożarowo…)
Stained Glass
in a train
a carol
A Dream
Under Atlas
Café
Cloto
Separation
A Sparrow
The Passage
To The Priest
Faith
A Warning
God
Catechesis
Tabernacle
* * * (beetles’ colorful wings…)
To R. B.
The Hell
The Wall
A Confession
Poland 1991
The Disappearance of Mark S.
In A Train
Babel
The Ant
Singing in Polish
Joseph Conrad
An Angel
In Poland, 1993
Ten Years Ago in Olsztyn
Near
The Wall Games
church
Dressed Up
Theology
* * * (Reading an obituary…)
Mistake
Incarnation
* * * (one day, the roughcast…)
The Wall’s Corner
Ode To The River
A Moment
veneer
* * * (perhaps He collects us…)
The Wall’s Prayer
* * * (after many years I discovered…)
Don’t be afraid
Mother
Missionary of Love
Salvation
* * * (today when the wind blows…)
About the Author
The Wall & Beyond
By Joanna Kurowska
Copyright 2012 by Joanna Kurowska
Cover Copyright 2012 by eLectio Publishing and Joanna Kurowska
Cover design by Joanna Kurowska
The author is hereby established as the sole holder of the copyright. Either
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