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    Trouble in the Diocese
    Trouble in the Diocese
    Trouble in the Diocese
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    Trouble in the Diocese

    By David Craig

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    Trouble in the Diocese is a petulant, funny book of poetry. Its contrary protagonist/antagonist, the Apprentice, embraces life in both the large and the absurdly small. At the same time, he emphatically rejects the easy rigidity of doily-headed orthodox Catholics as well as the impulse in the Catholic literary Pixar world that seeks to serve two masters.
    Jesus and his Church are lifted up here, but so is the cross. Discipleship necessarily involves dis-ease, purgation, and if we as readers have any sense, we will--more quietly perhaps--do well to listen (with patience) to his rants.
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    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateAug 12, 2014
    ISBN9781498201322
    Trouble in the Diocese
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    David Craig

    David Craig was born in Aberdeen and educated there and in Cambridge. He has taught literature and social history in schools and universities in England, Scotland and Sri Lanka. He has published several books on Natural History and Social History, including The Glens of Silence which was published by Birlinn in 2004. He lives in Cumbria.

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Phase One

      Inuit Introit

      Come, Negagfok

      Christmas with Ed and the Remote Control

      The Apprentice, Amazed

      The Apprentice Rejoices

      The Apprentice and Monsieur L’Amour

      The Apprentice Finds His Place

      On the Corner of Hollywood and Time

      The Apprentice Sees Himself in the Sunset

      Lobster Exit

      The Apprentice Considers Fleas

      The Apprentice Sings A Cappella

      The Apprentice Prophesies

      The Apprentice Considers His Addiction

      The Apprentice at the Chancery

      The Apprentice and the Egg

      The Apprentice on Vacation

      The Apprentice Bilocates

      The Apprentice Counsels a Not-so-Young Rilke

      The Apprentice Scours the Diocese

      Phase Two

      Misplaced Years

      The Kind of (Apprentice) September

      Somewhere Else

      The Apprentice as Bobblehead

      Poem for Apprentice Jude (Down’s)

      The Apprentice Takes a Soak

      The Apprentice Skuds

      Apprenticed in Purgatory

      The Oak Street Polka

      The Call

      The Apprentice Paints his Face

      The Apprentice Washes His Hands

      The Apprentice’s Assigned Penance

      Apprentice Fail

      The Apprentice Considers the Past

      The Apprentice Wins The Teaching Award

      The Apprentice, Trolled

      Humility meets Stupid

      The Apprentice as Dismus

      The Guerillas of Love

      The Apprentice Prays with d. a. levy

      Miss Dickinson Answers Higginson and THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

      Phase Three

      The Apprentice and the Christ

      Jesus on the Street

      Locution Poem

      Notes

      I want to tell you something. What is it that I expect? I want a mess. I want trouble in the dioceses! I want to get rid of the mundane. 

      ­—pope francis i

      the apprentice

      Phase One

      Inuit Introit

      Like hawks, outside of time,

      perched on the limbs of the seasons,

      the Apprentice passes tucked

      Victorian houses; a little boy,

      shovels away from his dad, can’t lift

      what he has gathered, falls to his knees.

      His father doesn’t notice.

      Perhaps he, too, feels it, the night:

      rows of sprigs, pin feathers,

      sprouting neatly up his

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