Too much can be lost when books and music have a limited audience and then go out of print. You might happen upon them in a thrift store or Ebay or even on Amazon, but there’s a reason they are no longer in print; they would be unprofitable. Out of print and unprofitable don’t mean without value, however.
I ordered this out of print book of poetry for a single poem and found others that touched me. Here are two of them.
You! Jonah!: Thomas John Carlisle: Books
ASIN: B001CJQS5Y
by Thomas John Carlisle, published in 1968, a collection of poems about Jonah.
NEGOTIATION WITH A HIGHER POWER
I will demonstrate
my immediate
obedience
providing You comply
with my demand
for a more satisfying
assignment.
COMING AND GOING
The word came
And he went
In the other direction.
God said: Cry
tears of compassion
tears of repentance;
cry against
the reek of unrighteousness;
cry for
the right turn
the contrite spirit.
And Jonah rose
And fled
In tearless
silence.
