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Songs of Time and Season (ISBN 1-4116-0596-9) is a collection of poetry by Andrew Stephen Damick, an Orthodox Christian and lover of English literature. In it, he attempts to come to grips with many of the central themes of life in Christ—what it means to love truly, the inner meaning of repentance, communion with the Divine, the great feasts of the Orthodox Church, holy places, and other central themes of sojourn in this earthly life. It features prominently his epithalamion Tradition's Time, a 12-stanza 365-line poem written for his own wedding which is arranged around the Church calendar.

He invites you to come and savor with him the traditional forms of English poetry with a fresh dip into eternal waters. Buy Songs of Time and Season today for only $12.95 (plus shipping)!

O elegant and gentle Leader of the dance,
we do not know the meaning of each step
nor how to rightly turn this way or hold this pose.
Each spinning step or angled movement's twist
does sometimes give us vertigo here where we stand;
this mystery of how the rhythm's pulse
and how the music's lilt are tuned to only You
has caught us up, and we are overwhelmed.

From Perichoresis

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The full table of contents (click links for excerpts):

PREFACE

KYRIE ELEISON

Perichoresis
Canticle for the Meeting of Our Lord
The Great Fast
On Repentance
Song for the Dormition of
  the Blessed Virgin Mary
Hymn at Pascha

THE FASCINATION OF THE STARS

Redeeming the Time
Elements
Home
A Night Blessing
Conspiracy
Invocation
Iona
Lindisfarne

AGAINST THE SOLIPSISTS

Leaving Virginia
Woman in a Coffeehouse
The Dead
The Mating of Earth and Sky

KALLISTA

A Canticle for Beginning
Evening Prayer
These Risks of Joy
Two Houseguests
Betrothal

EPITHALAMION:
TRADITION'S TIME

Read previous, unpublished work:

If You, O Lord, should mark in me
Communion
Ex Nihilo
Telos
Creation
Pneuma
Old words and photographs
An elegy for beast of prey
Of A.K.
Diana
Utopia
The Poet as Everyman: A Manifesto

Andrew is an ordained priest in the Orthodox Church of Antioch, received his Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature from North Carolina State University, and is the husband of Nicole. He graduated in 2007 with an M.Div. degree from St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary. He and his wife currently live in Charleston, West Virginia, with their daughter.

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