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Break, Blow, Burn, and Make
A Writer's Thoughts on Creation
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By E. Lily Yu
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Centuries ago, sound theology and good fiction were friends and not strangers. Decades ago, authors strove not for self-expression and self-disclosure but for a mastery of craft and language and books that transformed the reader with wisdom and love. In more recent years, the old ideals have been exchanged for lesser ones.
Few guides to writing, which tend to focus on mechanics, point of view, and plot, address the more important matters of meaning, depth, and heart. But it is the latter qualities that make a book a blessing and gift to both writer and reader. Like Christ’s invitation to follow, they demand a risk and sacrifice of the self and all it holds dear. Writers from George MacDonald to James Baldwin understood this, but in recent years this understanding has been lost. Making old things new, this book proposes an ethics of reading, writing, and living based on truth and love.
Break, Blow, Burn, & Make returns the literary conversation to the practices of co-creation with God. Part bugle call, part compass for writing and for life, and part love song to the books that set us on fire, it offers those who are willing to receive it the courage to live, read, and write more deeply and honestly.
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"To read Break, Blow, Burn & Make is to behold - to gaze upon the beauty of the fragments and broken remains of our art and our lives, to be gifted the courage to be faithful makers. It is an invitation to hope, to persevere, to recalibrate through despair, to pray and ultimately to love. At times in reading this gem filled book, I wanted to pause and weep, and at other times I wanted to stand up and applaud.… I follow her into that sacred, darkened space, and sojourn into our daily discipline of making there.”Makoto Fujimura, Artist and author of Art+Faith: A Theology of Making
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“E. Lily Yu is the author of stories that set me ablaze. What a gift to now read "Break, Blow, Burn, & Make," her extraordinary love letter to God and to language, to writers and readers, to all of us struggling to tune our ears to ‘the still small voice that speaks from our innermost being…’ Like Flannery O'Connor in Mystery and Manners, Yu shares her hard-won wisdom with moral seriousness, tender care, and prickly humor. Yu has written a singular blend of memoir, instruction, and inspiration… Break, Blow, Burn & Make is an incandescent book, flaming out from Yu's heart to the reader ‘like shining from shook foil.’ A masterpiece.”Karen Russell, New York Times bestselling author of Swamplandia
- On Sale
- Jun 10, 2025
- Page Count
- 240 pages
- Publisher
- Worthy Books
- ISBN-13
- 9781546005506
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