standing all the night through

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standing all the night through

Finding its inspiration in a chosen people with no promised land to call their own, standing all the night through voices the unspoken mythology of the Mennonite people–always looking with faith and longing to another place, another world, as their ultimate destination.

AUTHOR

Audrey Poetker

Audrey Poetker has been published in literary journals such as Canadian Literature, Prairie Fire, Mennonite Mirror and The New Quarterly. Her second book of poetry, standing all the night through (Turnstone Press), was nominated as McNally-Robinson Book of Year in 1992. She lives on a Manitoba farm and is mother to three dogs.