Tickets for a Prayer Wheel

poetry by Dillard

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Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974) is a collection of poetry by American writer Annie Dillard. It was her first published book. Dillard is best known for her essays that meditate on the natural world, earning her a Pulitzer Prize for her collection Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974). Her other works explore themes of religious mysticism, literary craftsmanship, and the writer's role in society. While Tickets for a Prayer Wheel is a significant part of her early work, her critical acclaim primarily stems from her prose.1

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Annie Dillard
…was a collection of poetry, Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974). It was as an essayist, however, that she earned critical as well as popular acclaim. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), she distilled from keen observations of her own habitat the essential enigmas of religious…
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…was a collection of poetry, Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974). It was as an essayist, however, that she earned critical as well as popular acclaim. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), she distilled from keen observations of her own habitat the essential enigmas of religious…
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