Title: Inspirational Verse for Those Who Hunger and Thirst
Subtitle: A Book of Poems to Feed the Soul
Author: Artemis Craig
Genre: Inspirational and Religious Poetry
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Reviewer: Marlan Warren
I have respect for anyone’s spiritual journey. And I have
a lot of respect for the poet Artemis Craig, whom I met at USC, while we were
both in film school studying screenwriting. We only met once, in the changing
room of the gym, but her feisty humor made a lasting impression.
“Before they’re done, this school’s gonna own the drawers
on my butt!” she said. I don’t know about her, but that school does own the
drawers on my butt. The one thing I
do know that we share is post-film-school depression. A not uncommon affliction
in L.A.
Now, a couple decades later, Craig has risen out of the
ashes of Hollywood as an evangelical poet who has walked through fire, and
lived to tell her story in the form of Inspirational
Verse for Those Who Hunger and Thirst: A Book of Poems to Feed the Soul.
With straightforward honesty and a gift for storytelling,
Craig has arranged the poems in this anthology as an odyssey washed in the
blood of heartaches, losses, and disappointments after returning home as the
Prodigal Daughter. All the elements that make “inspirational verse” inspirational are there
(finding and praising the Grace of God), woven into searing moments from Craig’s
life, told with her flair for dramatic prose and metaphor.
