Amounting to Nothing
Paul Quenon
After 60 years at Gethsemani Abbey, Br. Paul follows up his recent memoir, In Praise of the Useless Life, with a poetic collection that shows how to do just that – by writing poetry. Amounting to Nothing is both practical and metaphysical, a puzzling over the ultimate things of life, and a descending on the Benedictine ladder of humility to the earthly creatures surrounding a Kentucky monastery. This is less an exploration in self-knowledge than a forgetting of self in the wonders of everything. Quenon treads bare footed on the margins of mortality and immortality, with wit, thought, and hope.
Duration - 18h 2m.
Author - Paul Quenon.
Narrator - Paul Quenon.
Published Date - Wednesday, 10 January 2024.
Location:
United States
Description:
After 60 years at Gethsemani Abbey, Br. Paul follows up his recent memoir, In Praise of the Useless Life, with a poetic collection that shows how to do just that – by writing poetry. Amounting to Nothing is both practical and metaphysical, a puzzling over the ultimate things of life, and a descending on the Benedictine ladder of humility to the earthly creatures surrounding a Kentucky monastery. This is less an exploration in self-knowledge than a forgetting of self in the wonders of everything. Quenon treads bare footed on the margins of mortality and immortality, with wit, thought, and hope. Duration - 18h 2m. Author - Paul Quenon. Narrator - Paul Quenon. Published Date - Wednesday, 10 January 2024.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:13:33
Epigraph
Duration:00:17:45
I Getting Nowhere
Duration:00:05:14
Mad Monk's Life Ambition
Duration:01:26:55
Thin Host
Duration:00:44:31
Undefined
Duration:00:33:57
God
Duration:00:42:00
Watchman
Duration:01:10:24
Alone with the Alone
Duration:01:02:00
What is an Anti-Poem?
Duration:02:33:45
The Grammar of Be/cause
Duration:01:28:57
That Barbarian in the Mirror
Duration:01:54:19
Emily, your spare lines
Duration:00:28:26
Merton's Anniversary
Duration:02:02:16
Critical Change for Whom?
Duration:01:59:24
Ground of Searching
Duration:00:39:28
Last Conversation with Matthew
Duration:01:30:57
For Fr. Matthew Kelty
Duration:00:51:24
Teensy, Weensy Fishies
Duration:01:42:26
Hidden Life
Duration:00:50:43
For Br. Martin de Porres
Duration:01:08:57
II Busy at Non-Doing
Duration:00:08:24
A Song
Duration:01:58:45
Ode to Prime Matter
Duration:02:57:21
Until the Next Committee
Duration:00:37:14
Kitchen Utensils
Duration:02:37:21
The Fine Art of Frying an Egg
Duration:01:10:48
Hungry Ghosts
Duration:01:49:00
It's There
Duration:00:27:12
tree trunk shadows
Duration:00:44:28
Cedar Sails
Duration:00:37:57
Nine-Tailed Tiger
Duration:01:11:48
Meanwhiles
Duration:01:10:07
III A Community of Creatures
Duration:00:09:00
Gang Crows
Duration:00:37:48
Noble Bugs
Duration:00:52:07
A Little Night Music
Duration:00:58:07
Scent of Winter
Duration:01:29:21
Sole Calet in Hieme
Duration:01:29:43
Solstice Eclipse
Duration:00:56:04
Winter Night Symposium
Duration:01:43:09
Juncos Came Back
Duration:00:51:19
Frost Edges
Duration:00:31:40
Polar Bear
Duration:00:25:40
Winter Conversation of Trees
Duration:01:12:31
Rain Mass
Duration:00:34:45
Rothko Sky
Duration:00:34:12
Parental Winds
Duration:00:49:55
Groaning Snow
Duration:00:25:19
Traveling Companion
Duration:01:26:00
Mild January Eve
Duration:00:57:28
Wealthy Abandon
Duration:00:38:38
Fantasy House Plants
Duration:01:11:04
Little Mt. Rushmore, KY
Duration:01:15:36
Pastel Blossoms
Duration:00:53:57
Attention Getter
Duration:00:33:07
Careful Instruction
Duration:00:52:07
Jail Girls
Duration:01:06:26
Cresting Green
Duration:01:17:43
Rowdy Party
Duration:00:42:31
Great Art
Duration:01:08:45
Spider
Duration:03:21:02
Ever'bubby's Mum
Duration:00:47:24
The Heavens Expound
Duration:00:58:04
Fireflies
Duration:01:06:55
Hay Roll Calving
Duration:01:26:21
Ripe Madonna
Duration:00:40:50
Sound Unsounded
Duration:01:14:04
Thunder Disputes
Duration:00:44:36
Wishing Trees
Duration:00:33:04
Autumn Evening
Duration:01:39:02
IV Ritual Instinct
Duration:00:07:45
Hollow Bell
Duration:00:40:36
November Sesshin
Duration:00:39:55
Fourth Sunday in Advent
Duration:01:16:19
A Musical Riddle
Duration:01:47:09
Reading the Clouds
Duration:00:38:43
Patron Saint of Music
Duration:01:32:31
In the morning I come before you
Duration:01:07:40
Bells Embossed with Names
Duration:01:01:21
Portrait of Rilke
Duration:00:58:52
Noel Drizzle
Duration:00:42:12
Epiphany Gifts
Duration:00:37:55
Walking Meditation
Duration:00:56:38
Ending Credits
Duration:00:09:36