pstrongPRAISE for emBEARING THE CASemstrongemTemppThe word metanoia typically translated as 'repentance' actually means 'Go into the larger mind.' In that sense, Skip Renker's new collection is a profound act of metanoia it bears witness to a human being 'caught in the act' of waking up, learning to pay attention from the heart. Clearly detectible beneath the sparse, Zenlike surface of these poems are those deeper shafts of light emerging from a growing compassion, gentleness, and a wry, self- deprecating humor that somehow manages to 'hold all things in unity.'ppThe Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault Episcopal Priest - Writer - Retreat Leaderbr ppIn this God-haunted book of poems where the Dhammapada and The Tibetan Book of the Dead seem to exert influence equally with the writings of Thoreau and Meister Eckhart, Skip Renker gives us the world made whole again through a language of remarkable precision and clarity. The old dichotomy of subjectiveobjective falls away, replaced by the thinking mi