David Craig

These poems owe their origin to Robert Bly's stunning ghazals in Stealing Sugar from the Castle. (Why Minnesota has not erected a fifty-foot statue in honor of him is beyond me.) But since these lyrics are devotional in a Christian way, they are different. Though they enjoy Bly's wonderful sense of meter, they try to exalt Jesus Christ, the God-man, the Eucharist, in the very ground and summit of our being. They want to praise him in all things, as Christian poetry must do, for what he has done, for what he is doing. Surely the future will see a rise is such poetry. After all, that is why we are here. '""We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience, ' Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said. These poems illustrate this statement. They ask such questions as: How does a person of deep conviction carry on his daily life, with a wife, children, a job, and all the gifts and thefts of the world? How can he experience joy amidst all the obstacles and difficulties? This book is a spiritual adventure, a road trip Catholics and others will be happy they took. The poems leave a subtle aftertaste of blessing. Their sense of the spiritual richness of ordinary experience is contagious."" --Janet McCann, author of Pascal Goes to the Races ""These poems are brilliant, such a delight to read. . . . David Craig's Every Tongue Confess is a poetic exploration of the human condition that manages to be at once playful and profound, whimsical and wise, earthy and other-worldly. . . . Jesus appears in these poems as infinitely patient, willing to bow low to meet us poor, sinful pilgrims where we are. Read these poems--they will give your soul rare sustenance."" --Christine Schintgen, Associate Professor of Literature, Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College ""The name Craig will be mentioned with the likes of Donne, Blake, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Lawrence, Eliot, Cummings, Hughes, & Merton. Couldn't stop reading. Had 2 send this text 2 give myself a break. Incredible . . . congratulations."" --Duane Drotar, Catholic Activist ""As in all Craig's poetry, everything in Every Tongue Confess is street-level, real, no bullshit, whether he is calling on Monet, Moses, Charlie Parker, or the poet's own family. He presents and questions the nature of God and being, not out of doubt but rather how a child discovers the world as always new and miraculous."" --Bill O'Connell, author of Sakonnet Point This is David Craig's twenty-sixth book, large and small. He has taught creative writing at the Franciscan University of Steubenville for more than thirty years (surely a testament to God's mercy). He would like to thank Jesus for all the folk he has met, for the chance he has had to try and serve.

Glasgow 1893. Wilton Hunt, a student, and Tam Foley, a laudanum-addicted pharmacist, are pursuing extra-curricular careers as body snatchers, or `resurrection men', under cover of darkness. They exhume a girl's corpse, only for it to disappear while their backs are turned. Confused and in need of the money the body would have earnt them, they investigate the corpse's disappearance. They discover that bodies have started to turn up in the area with ripped-out throats and severe loss of blood, although not the one they lost. The police are being encouraged by powerful people to look the other way, and the deaths are going unreported by the press. As Hunt and Foley delve beneath the veneer of respectable society, they find themselves entangled in a dangerous underworld that is protected from scrutiny by the rich and powerful members of the elite but secretive Sooty Feathers Club. Meanwhile, a mysterious circus arrives in the middle of the night, summoned as allies to help avenge a betrayal two centuries old... Resurrection Men is the first book in David Craig's Sooty Feathers series, a masterful gothic tale about a supernatural war for control of the Second City of the British Empire, and the struggle of flawed characters of uncertain virtue who try to avert it. It is set in a late 19th century Glasgow ruled by undead - from the private clubs, town houses and country manors of the privileged to the dung-choked wynds and overcrowded slums of the poor. Undead unrest, a fallen angel, and religious zealots intent on driving out the forces of evil, set the stage for a diabolical conflict of biblical proportions.

Thirty years ago, around 770,000 people - just one in six school leavers - attended a British university or polytechnic. Now there are over 2.3 million students in Higher Education - almost half of school leavers. But has this huge growth in 'Uni' really been the great success that politicians and universities would have us believe? After all, what's the point of having a degree if one in every two people has one and if less than one in ten students on many courses will find a graduate job? THE GREAT UNIVERSITY CON exposes the truth behind the massive expansion of Britain's university sector - millions of graduates with useless degrees in pointless subjects from third-rate universities with little chance of finding a graduate job but with a lifetime of unrepayable debt.

God desires to lead us into all truth and show us things to come. In "My Supernatural Life" Dr. David Craig records some of the dreams and visions significant in his life. His desire is to share with and encourage you to consider your own dreams and visions and the supernatural impact they carry. The book is transparent and personal, and Dr. Craig includes scriptures pertaining to dreams and visions for both purpose and benefit of understanding and obeying your dreams and visions. Enjoy Dr. Craig's story, and get ready for God to bring to your remembrance earlier dreams and vision preparing you for the moment at hand

Jesus is God, and we as necessarily devotional Christian poets must not shy away from that fact. These poems try to celebrate that reality, who He is, without sacrificing literary quality. They are distinctly American (baseball, jazz, and free verse) in form, Beat in the line of Mary Fabilli, Thomas Merton, and Daniel ""stick it to the man"" Berrigan. And they try to accomplish this without sacrificing humor and romp. May these, and all Christian poems, both now and in the future, wave that flag of freedom--no matter what our personal struggles. Our lives, our poems are about Jesus finally, the One who is mercy itself. May He look kindly upon us, and give us His peace. ""There is, writes the poet, 'a pretty loud party going on in the other world.' And with those words David Craig takes us on a journey of spiritual longing where 'each little moment' on earth, though suffused with astonishment and love, is only a 'pauper's map to heaven.' Throughout this book, the reader encounters the quotidian juxtaposed with the extraordinary--each and all a wonder. While Craig tells us, we might be 'more lost/than would seem possible, ' he also exquisitely reminds us that 'It takes nothing/to truly celebrate.'"" --Lois Roma-Deeley, author of The Short List of Certainties ""David Craig's poems read like something written by a hip Franciscan, filled with a surprising sense of self-effacement and humility, mixed with a continual note of celebration for the things of this world: sunsets, sunrises, the chirp of birds, his beautiful family, the happy howl of his two dogs. Somehow he makes you feel, as he says, as if Jesus were, in fact, 'to walk down the middle of our street / happy to sit with us on our back porch, ' to 'talk about whatever we need to belong to / at the moment.'"" --Paul Mariani, author of Epitaphs for the Journey ""David Craig is one of the best poets working today. His poetic vision might be best described as 'mystical realism, ' and to serve that vision, Craig has evolved a demotic yet lyric style that resembles Emily Dickinson's in its nerve-end economy, William Carlos Williams's in its plain-spoken diction and disarmingly unpretentious tropes, and CK Williams's in its candor of address."" --David Impastato, editor of Upholding Mystery ""The speaker of this collection is someone the reader wants to visit with and learn from. The subtle fusion of tenor and vehicle in his metaphors is a good technique for a fine Catholic poet whose readers need not be Catholic, but only seekers after the metaphysical, trying to find a refreshed vision. On one level these are simply poems about innocence and grace, and how these factors serve as a compass for living a good life in a society where they are underrated and ignored. This collection is satisfying to mind, heart, and spirit. The reader will return to it for refreshment and inspiration."" --Janet McCann, author of Buddha in the Barbed-Wire Garden ""I believe David Craig to be the foremost religious poet of the day whose special gift it is to reveal the presence and care of God in all things--especially the most unlikely things. He gives us poems as rich in humanity as they are of the mystery of God, which is the same. He is doing the work he was called for, and we are blessed by the presence his words generate."" --Howard McCord, author of Collected Poems ""This collection is clear-minded, heartfelt, and so reverent it seems irreverent. 'That is why I beat this drum, walking up and down the property line.' Honest and giddy, grateful and 'I don't know, happy, ' all the reader can do is rejoice over the fact that there is this kind of voice; that is if he or she doesn't mind sharing the trolley with Barbie and Ken, a horde of disagreeable tortoises."" --Periwinkle Bleu, Bon Vivant, Wife About Town David Craig, who had the foresight to marry Linda (nee Unger) Craig when she was a virtual unknown, is a Professor of English at the Franciscan University of Steubenville where he has tau

Jesus is God, and we as necessarily devotional Christian poets must not shy away from that fact. These poems try to celebrate that reality, who He is, without sacrificing literary quality. They are distinctly American (baseball, jazz, and free verse) in form, Beat in the line of Mary Fabilli, Thomas Merton, and Daniel ""stick it to the man"" Berrigan. And they try to accomplish this without sacrificing humor and romp. May these, and all Christian poems, both now and in the future, wave that flag of freedom--no matter what our personal struggles. Our lives, our poems are about Jesus finally, the One who is mercy itself. May He look kindly upon us, and give us His peace. ""There is, writes the poet, 'a pretty loud party going on in the other world.' And with those words David Craig takes us on a journey of spiritual longing where 'each little moment' on earth, though suffused with astonishment and love, is only a 'pauper's map to heaven.' Throughout this book, the reader encounters the quotidian juxtaposed with the extraordinary--each and all a wonder. While Craig tells us, we might be 'more lost/than would seem possible, ' he also exquisitely reminds us that 'It takes nothing/to truly celebrate.'"" --Lois Roma-Deeley, author of The Short List of Certainties ""David Craig's poems read like something written by a hip Franciscan, filled with a surprising sense of self-effacement and humility, mixed with a continual note of celebration for the things of this world: sunsets, sunrises, the chirp of birds, his beautiful family, the happy howl of his two dogs. Somehow he makes you feel, as he says, as if Jesus were, in fact, 'to walk down the middle of our street / happy to sit with us on our back porch, ' to 'talk about whatever we need to belong to / at the moment.'"" --Paul Mariani, author of Epitaphs for the Journey ""David Craig is one of the best poets working today. His poetic vision might be best described as 'mystical realism, ' and to serve that vision, Craig has evolved a demotic yet lyric style that resembles Emily Dickinson's in its nerve-end economy, William Carlos Williams's in its plain-spoken diction and disarmingly unpretentious tropes, and CK Williams's in its candor of address."" --David Impastato, editor of Upholding Mystery ""The speaker of this collection is someone the reader wants to visit with and learn from. The subtle fusion of tenor and vehicle in his metaphors is a good technique for a fine Catholic poet whose readers need not be Catholic, but only seekers after the metaphysical, trying to find a refreshed vision. On one level these are simply poems about innocence and grace, and how these factors serve as a compass for living a good life in a society where they are underrated and ignored. This collection is satisfying to mind, heart, and spirit. The reader will return to it for refreshment and inspiration."" --Janet McCann, author of Buddha in the Barbed-Wire Garden ""I believe David Craig to be the foremost religious poet of the day whose special gift it is to reveal the presence and care of God in all things--especially the most unlikely things. He gives us poems as rich in humanity as they are of the mystery of God, which is the same. He is doing the work he was called for, and we are blessed by the presence his words generate."" --Howard McCord, author of Collected Poems ""This collection is clear-minded, heartfelt, and so reverent it seems irreverent. 'That is why I beat this drum, walking up and down the property line.' Honest and giddy, grateful and 'I don't know, happy, ' all the reader can do is rejoice over the fact that there is this kind of voice; that is if he or she doesn't mind sharing the trolley with Barbie and Ken, a horde of disagreeable tortoises."" --Periwinkle Bleu, Bon Vivant, Wife About Town David Craig, who had the foresight to marry Linda (nee Unger) Craig when she was a virtual unknown, is a Professor of English at the Franciscan University of Steubenville where he has tau

The Holy Spirit takes the things of Christ and makes them real to us. In this book, Dr. David Craig teaches us the importance of being filled with the Holy Spirit and speaking in a supernatural language to God. Dr. Craig lives from total dependence on God and the practice of biblical principles in everyday life. He is honest, bold, unashamed, and sold out for the great purposes of the King of all kings. Read, enjoy, and learn more about walking with God This book is a welcome, joyous, and positive side of walking in the supernatural Even the satanic forces working in this world know the power of speaking in tongues. Shouldn't you? Read this book and arm yourselves for the days we live in

Though we are all sorry sinners, not worthy to sing God's praises, we must. The trick is to not let concerns for ""Christian stealth"" transform us into poets who end up serving a second master. ""Platform"" has its draw, but we can't let a wide concern for Catholic culture become no culture at all. We can't be so concerned with success that our poems lose their distinguishing content. Jesus is Lord of all the earth. Using a conversational style lifted from Collins and Coleridge, these poems seek to bring a world to light where He has always been alive and active, where he reigns in complete power, worthy of all our praise. May He forgive us all our sins and change us in the twinkling of His eye before our journey ends. ""A compelling pleasure. . . . David Craig longs for the eternal amid the pleasures and trials of the quotidian. He catches glimpses of the everlasting that reveal the larger coherence, his mortal place in the immortal plan. These lovely lyrical meditations are self-effacing but also self-assured, the expression of a self-creating sacrifice: 'Oh great God of the universe / hear us as we move our losses aside / Let that be our voice, our answer.'"" --Andrew Hudgins, author of A Clown at Midnight: Poems ""Barefoot and unadorned, these poems confide in an unpretentious voice. Eschewing ambition, largeness, notoriety, they accept the small, ordinary, and unkempt. And yet in their honest appraisal of our lives and ourselves, they can 'become / a listening place, a place of transformation, ' reminding us of the necessary humility for grace, open to what can be found in the lost and the least, open to God."" --Eric Potter, professor of English, Grove City College, author of Things Not Seen This is David Craig's twenty-third psalm/book and his sixth book of poetry in the last five years. He'd like to thank his wife Linda, his kids, his poetry friends, and his students for offering the life that has made its way into these poems. Christ is risen

Lying is a normal part of human communication and is sometimes necessary to protect someone's feelings. At the same time, there are also malicious lies meant to deceive, cheat, and defraud. Especially in today's world, in which technology, media, and the government have blurred the lines between fact and fiction, you can't always rely on what comes out of someone's mouth or what you see on the internet or television. It doesn't take mind-reading superpowers to be able to tell when someone is lying--but it does take special skills and a little practice. In How to Become a Human Shit Detector, international expert in undercover operations Dr. David Craig provides readers with an easy-to-follow guide on applying lie-detection skills to your everyday life. From the simple skills of bargaining, making a purchase, or dealing with children, to the more serious business of negotiating a contract, identifying infidelity, or understanding lies in politics, Craig delivers simple but effective tips and techniques we can all use to see behind the fa ade and find our way to the truth. The culmination of more than twenty years of practical criminology and hundreds of hours of academic research, this book is the premier guide to the art of lie-detecting. Split into three parts, the book looks at understanding lies and how to detect lies, and it includes an easy reference section that summarizes all the main points. The mystery of what a person is really thinking is finally unlocked in this fascinating and informative book.

Forged in the secretive world of covert operations, Unlocking Secrets uses real crime and practical examples to reveal the new frontier in interpersonal communications: advanced psychological skills. Thanks to this book, these skills can now be used by anyone who wants to improve their interpersonal and communication skills by getting people to open up and talk. In Unlocking Secrets, David Craig has simplified the psychological methods used so effectively by criminal investigators and covert operatives to persuade others to reveal their secrets. He shows how these skills can be easily applied to benefit in everyday professional and personal situations. These secret - revealing techniques subtly influence people to share hidden information, and may assist people working with patients, clients, children or friends who carry a difficult and burdensome secret. They can also be used to improve business knowledge, as well as to initiate and enrich personal relationships. Unlocking Secrets will arm people with the latest interpersonal skills to enrich their personal life and advance professional careers.