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"This book is AMAZING--moving and witty and sweet and sometimes even shocking--a little bit of everything we pray for in our private moments." - Susan Larson, WWNO

"This book is AMAZING--moving and witty and sweet and sometimes even shocking--a little bit of everything we pray for in our private moments." - Susan Larson, WWNO

"Matthew Vollmer (who has a talent for pulling literature out of unexpected places) has edited an anthology of 'everyday evocations'... As it turns out, you can pray for almost anything. But you couldn t pray for a more inspiring book." - Brian Hurley, Fiction Advocate

"A Book of Uncommon Prayer is fear, reverence, and disbelief, oftentimes all three at once; it's an homage to the heavens' Transcendental Signifier; it's about meaning, finding it, losing it, then grappling with its void. But it's also more. Laden with long, beautiful sentences the kind we expect from Vollmer A Book of Uncommon Prayer is a looking glass through porous borders, a prayer for the universally mundane..." - Pat Siebel, Atticus Review

"This is not a secular anthology, but it is not a religious one; instead, A Book of Uncommon Prayer reaches for the core of the human experience in all its fickleness. Vollmer s collected prayers speak to the fundamental and the minute, as well as to the absurd, the ecstatic, and the mundane." - Savannah Johnston at Puerto del Sol "

An anthology of everyday evocations by 68 authors. A benefit project for 826 Valencia, with prayers by Dan Albergotti, Kate Angus, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Jensen Beach, A. K. Benninghofen, Nathan Blake, Gabriel Blackwell, George Bishop, Jr., Wendy Brenner, Nic Brown, Scott Cheshire, Jaime Clarke, Sean Conaway, Stanley Crawford, Michelle Kyoko Crowson, Christy Crutchfield, Weston Cutter, Chad Davidson, Gabe Durham, Mieke Eerkens, Clyde Edgerton, Matthew Gavin Frank, Amy Fusselman, Jonterri Gadson, V. V. Ganeshananthan, William Giraldi, Ani Gjika, Eve Grubin, John Haskell, Bob Hicok, Caitlin Horrocks, Marie Howe, Leslie Jamison, Lauren Jensen, Will Kaufman, Rob Kenagy, Lee Klein, Catherine Lacey, J. Robert Lennon, Ariel Lewiton, Nate Liederbach, Samuel Ligon, Robert Lopez, Courtney Maum, Aaron McCollough, Charles McLeod, Erika Meitner, Brenda Miller, Rick Moody, Liz Moore, Dylan Nice, Brian Oliu, Alicia Jo Rabins, Dawn Raffel, Wendy Rawlings, Ryan Ridge, Joseph Salvatore, Benjamin Samuel, Scott Sanders, Ravi Shankar, Susan B. A. Somers-Willett, Amber Sparks, Sasha Steensen, Sarah Strickley, Ian Stansel, Christian TeBordo, Robert Uren, & Matthew Vollmer