Waiting on the Word: A poem a day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

Ginger says: I used to write off poetry as a genre that was not for me. It’s hard sometimes to understand, and … to be honest a little pretentious a lot of the time. But somehow sitting under Malcolm Guite at an arts and literature conference, poetry came alive for me and what I’d perceived as pretension was more mystery, which is the rich gift of poetry with its perfect tension of sparse and florid language. Guite has several books of his own poetry, as well as anthologies that are practically a master class in poetry itself. In this anthology, Guite selects a different poet per day for the advent and Christmas season, then gives two or three short pages analyzing the poem. This is my favorite of his collection, but he has various anthologies for other holidays and seasons of life.