The Loneliest Monk Book cover type:Paperback but is also filled with

but is also filled with heaps of playful absurdity that will keep readers entertained all the way through

notably the French-Algerian War and the Troubles in Northern Ireland

her essays

journalist Tricia Booker recounts her personal history with infertility

The Loneliest Monk Book cover type:Paperback but is also filled withFrom aleph to bet, "a" to "b," a gap. As wide or as narrow as the gap between the loneliest monk and his neighbor, human or Divine. That's the gap the loneliest monk of Richard Chess's fifth poetry collection seeks to bridge. Who is the loneliest monk? As Chess writes, he's a "monk without a monastery," "a sit without a sangha," "a minyan of one." In other words, he lives outside of traditional settings and belongs to no traditional community.