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Article: Kathleen Norris: Dakota and other holy places. (includes related essay on poets and monks) (Cover Story)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- July 27, 1994
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Religion for Kathleen Norris was once "a constraint to overcome by dint of reason, learning, artistic creativity, sexual liberation." But 20 years ago a move from New York City to South Dakota changed all that. The cultural and geographical shock of the move prompted Norris to begin a religious quest in which she eventually "rediscovered the religion I was born to, and found in it a home."
Her journey back to Christianity, as described in her 1993 book Dakota, was marked by unusual spiritual persistence. Norris, who before Dakota wrote two books of poetry - Falling Off (1971) and The Middle of the World (1981) - is the kind of person who can regard long evenings ...