In his introduction to Learning to Pray: a book of longing, poet Yahia Lababidi writes that he’d been considering a book of prayerful writing, or “unconscious spiritual autobiography,” for some years. “For some,” he says, “poetry is how we pray now.” With organized religion in decline, and a plethora of substitutes ranging from cults to political parties offered in its place, Lababidi is asking a question that many of us are asking. We can fill our stomachs with food and our lives with stuff, but how do we fill the vacuum in our hearts?
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