What I Have I Offer with Two Hands - Paperback

by Jacob Stratman (Author)

Jacob Stratman's first collection of poems, What I Have I Offer with Two Hands, offers poems where the typically mundane and forgettable become windows to the divine. Whether the speaker of these poems is transfixed by Joseph Decker's Basket of Peaches, the hills and creeks of the Ozarks, the Eucharist, his son's Batman toys in the tub, or his own childhood, the focus never leaves his relationship with his sons and their relationship with God and the created world--what he hopes for them and what he hopes for all of us. With a loose connection to the liturgical calendar, readers will follow this father's meandering path through the year as he contemplates how to love, how to hope.

Author Biography

Jacob Stratman serves as professor of English and chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, where he lives with his family. This is his first book of poems.