CHRISTYMERRY
All Your Faces & re-print of Land of My Love - newest releases, 10/18/2025
Available at Eat My Words Bookstore & Cosmic Coffee in NE Mpls & at christymerry.bandcamp.com
All Your Faces is Merry's seventh book and a companion to her first book, the best-seller of her 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, her 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
“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,
Regent University Divinity School
RE-RELEASE OF FIRST PUBLISHED POETRY
COLLECTION!
Land of My Love is a collection of poems inspired by biblical characters and themes compiled and published in NYC in 2006 to fundraise to send the author on a group trip to Israel. The trip was funded and book sold out its original printing. This 2025 reprint was in honor of the release of All Your Faces, a compilation of poems along similar lines, with hope that it might find its home with a new generation of readers, and that the two books might complement each other.
THE LATEST
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Friday, June 5 - Lemonte, IL - I'll be a featured artist (along w/Tobin Bawinkel & Keith Perez) and will be sharing work - being interviewed, selling books/music & answering questions. There's also a 'hot mic' time at the end for folks to share insights from the event, or their own wisdom or artistry/poetry (5 minute limit)! We look forward to this trip!
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AudioFeed Fest, July 2-5 - Urbana, IL Special poetry event this year! I'll do a short feature Thurs, 7/2 within the open mic time, and will also be selling books during the fest in the area curated by Novelty Collective. It's possible I'll also be teaching a workshop. Come, read at the open mic, attend the fest!
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Greg Watson's book The Shape of Your Absence - I helped w/arrangement of these poems. It's so good. Buy it!
