Prof. Grazyna Kozaczka, specialist in Polish American literature, has reviewed "Meditations
for Divine Names" for The Polish Review (vol. 58 no. 4, 2013).
She writes: "Meditations on Divine Names" ... offers rich poetic material selected and collected with great sensitivity,
by an editor for whom religious belief was not a given, but rather the result of
conscious search. Its 140 poems by sixty-four
authors represent a variety of religious faiths. The title of this anthology points to some crucial
concepts. In several world mythologies, the
act of naming, the act that involves language, takes on the power of creation. One
can certainly find parallels here with poetic acts of creation. Likewise, many of
the poems chosen by Trochimczyk represent thoughtful meditations, prayers or thoughtful
incantations that allow the reader a total immersion in the spiritual and move the
reader to the emotional response to, and relationship with, the divine.” (p. 109).
The book is available from international booksellers, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other distributors:
Meditations on Divine Names, ed. Maja Trochimczyk, 2012.
