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During the years he was writing this collection of poems, James Howard Trott was also putting together an extensive anthology of Christian poetry in English, A Sacrifice of Praise. His first edition was published in 1997, after which, in 1999, a kind friend found a bigger venue for its publication. Trott says in the Preface to that anthology, he, like many American poets, often felt his wrote poetry in a vacuum -- a condition neither necessary...

When It Was Yet Dark God's grace meets us mysteriously in the most difficult of circumstances. Most central to this study are the passages toward the end of the four gospels. These deal with the events - and people -- surrounding the crucifixion, and particularly those afterward, leading up to the resurrection . There the faith of Christ's frightened followers seems most remarkable. Why did the women remain faithful even at the cross? Why did ...

Land, Light, Wind, and Water is composed of poetic meditations on these four "elements" as they are experienced by those who dwell where the northern Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains. Here are four cycles of poems: Land Sake, The Big Lights, What the Wind Said, and The Sound of Many Waters. Our (US) poetry is largely a poetry of place. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in its river settings was crowned by Hemingway as the Great American ...

Strata: Musings of a Rockhound is an account of some salient points of a geological wanderer's career. A relaxed read in the tradition of the literature of the American wilderness . Naturalist meditations in the genre which goes back to early colonial governor John Winthrop and comes down to us from contemporaries like Annie Dillard. The tradition is often epitomized in Henry David Thoreau's account of his sojourn at Walden Pond. Like Thoreau'...

Although the phrase "separation of church and state" was not used until President Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802, and did not obtain its current usage until the 1940s, yet nothing in American history so subtly but thoroughly contributed to that idea as the Salem Witch troubles of 1692. Despite their huge impact on the colonies, and nation emerging from them, the story of what actually happened has been obscure, hid in mytho...

This is the first selected collection of poetry of James Howard Trott, but not the first time his work has appeared in print. He and his wife, Roseann, put together an anthology of "Christian poetry in English from Caedmon to the mid-twentieth century" under the title A Sacrifice of Praise, published in 1999. An expanded edition came out in 2006. This door-stop of a book received favorable reviews in a number of circles, and was used as a lite...

Poems written over the last thirty years -- about babies and about the horror of making it legal to kill them. Poems full of challenges to Americans and to American Christians in particular -- challenges to our values, our goals, our shallow claims of faith. Celebrations, lamentations, warnings, and prayers. Reaffirmations of faith in the Child least-wanted, and most unjustly killed -- of faith in Christ, our only Hope and Deliverer.

What you hold in your hands is a slice of humanity sharing one other characteristic - the surname Trott. It's more or less of the "polite school of literature, " in other words aimless reading. And if the author slides into details of the New England branches, among which his ancestors may have been hanging or hanged, it is chiefly for their stories, too. Nor can he keep on that track for long - the rest of the Trotts in the world are too hard...