The Poet's Gift: Toward the Renewal of

Donald Capps draws upon the poetry of William Stafford and Denise Levertov to show how poetry can benefit the field of pastoral care. He argues that poetry focuses on the immediate experience and attends to life itself, whereas theology and ethics focus more on abstract discourse, seeking to achieve a more panoramic view of life.

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Self We Bring to Our Vocation	p. 7
Pastoral Conversation as Embodied Language	p. 39
Inviting the Grieving Back to Life	p. 74
Learning to Heed the Unheard Voices	p. 100
Pastoral Care and the Yearning for Freedom	p. 144
Notes	p. 175
Index	p. 187
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