All Your Faces Release Party

Name: All Your Faces Release Party
Start: 2025-10-18T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-18T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Cosmic Coffee MN

Schedule

Sat Oct 18 2025 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Cosmic Coffee MN | Minneapolis, MN

SAVE THE DATE - More details to come! ‘Twill be both a release for All Your Faces and a re-release for Land of My Love (original printing in 2006) and will of course include the usual - readings from the books, Q&A, book sales, etc., but I have some additional ideas. Will keep you posted! 💕
$5 pay-if-you-can cover
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ALL YOUR FACES is my seventh book and a companion to my first book, the best-seller of my body of work, LAND OF MY LOVE.
Both books are compilations of poems drawing their inspiration from biblical characters and themes and wrestling with faith and doubt, my approach ranging from reverent to irreverent (much like the Bible). If you like your discussion of spiritual texts to avoid giving pat answers and instead to sweep you up in beauty and perhaps mire you a bit in difficulties (even sometimes in the same poem), this may be the book for you.

“Christy Merry sees the world with eyes opened wide as they can go, red with weeping and lensed with joy. The miracle of her poetry is that it allows us to see as she does, if we can bear it.”
--Michael Bonikowsky, author of 'Red Stuff' and 'The Shepherd of Princes'

“In 'All Your Faces', Christy Merry examines what it means to be in a relationship with the Divine and with Jesus with curiosity and insight as well as devotion. Some of these poems are prayers and some are revelations.”

--Wendy Brown-Baez, author of 'Threading the Gold' and 'Ceremonies of the Spirit'

“How many faces does God have? Merry gives us forty-three different glimpses of the God she knows through her book 'All Your Faces'. I couldn’t put this book down as these poems share names and stories both familiar yet different in their exploration of the spiritual.”
--Charmaine Pappas Donovan, League of Minnesota Poets Poet Laureate Emeritus

LAND OF MY LOVE is a collection of poems inspired by biblical characters and themes compiled and published in New York City in 2006 in order to fundraise my joining a group trip to Israel. The trip was funded and the book sold out its original printing. This reprint in 2025 is in honor of the release of ALL YOUR FACES, a compilation of poems along similar lines, with a hope that it might find its home with a new generation of readers, and that the two books might complement each other.

“As I read 'Land of My Love' by Christy Merry, it feels to me as if it’s written in blood (to crib Nietzsche), i.e. written from the depths, out of the furnace of experience. Merry’s vulnerability in these poems is striking. Maurice Blanchot (a French writer) talked somewhere about poetry as an ‘open wound in language’. That is what this book calls to mind. But unlike Blanchot, I also feel it’s hope.”
--Jay Marsh, Phd, Adjunct Instructor of Theology at Regent University Divinity School