The Atheist's Prayer

Poetry. "In THE ATHEIST'S PRAYER Madeline Tiger never forgets, even in the most intimate moments, that 'truth is...like the old inveterate river that holds clouds.' Tiger encompasses, with a tender embrace, a life made whole; her ministrations do not deny it sorrows, and she is glad to celebrate its hard-won triumphs. I don't know when I have ever been allowed to contemplate the intricacies of the personal so unflinchingly and to understand that, beyond the window, there is a vast untempered world, a glorious one. It is the caring in these quietly intelligent poems which makes living in this world possible"--Burt Kimmelman.