Laurie L. Patton is author or editor of nine books on religion, mythology, and literature. Her most recent book of poems is Fire’s Goal: Poems from the Hindu Year, which was named a Publisher’s Weekly Pick of the Month in 2003. She has also translated the Bhagavad Gita for the Penguin Press Classics Series (2008). She has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Foundation in Israel, the Fulbright Foundation in India, and the Goldwasser Fund for Religion and the Arts. The former Charles Howard Candler Professor of Religions at Emory University, she is currently Dean of Arts and Sciences at Duke University located in Durham, NC.
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Books by Laurie Patton:
Angel's Task
Laurie Patton’s “Poems in Biblical Time” give contemplative voice to the reading cycle of the Jewish year. Replete with ancient imagery coming alive in the language of the present, each poem weaves...