Madeleine L’Engle Bibliography: Poetry

Madeleine L’Engle’s writing has always translated the invisible and intricate qualities of love into the patterns and rhythms of visible life. Now, with compelling language and open-hearted vulnerability, The Ordering of Love brings together the exhaustive collection of L’Engle’s poetry for the first time.

This Volume collects nearly 200 of L’Engle’s original poems, including eighteen that have never before been published. Reflecting on themes of love, loss, faith, and beauty, The Ordering of Love gives vivid and compelling insight into the language of the heart.

Madeleine L’Engle may find, in common with the rest of the human race, that she has trouble predicting the heart’s weather. Her gift is rather that of second sight, in-sight which can describe, in universal terms or small but vivid details, life’s stars and storms, its high-pressure systems and jet streams of love and anger, joy and despair, heat and cold. This is a true meteorology, observed and expressed with power and clarity by a poet who is in touch with God, man, and the universal weather.