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"Testaments: Poems in Witness of the Covenant" is a collection of poetry written over a four decade period. As the title suggests, the poems give lyrical witness to the covenant which a redeemed humanity has with its Saving God - realized through prayerful contemplation of Scripture and Sacred Mystery, of nature and ordinary experience. Cast in various verse forms, from rhymed and measured to freer structures, these psalmic meditations move through the cycle of salvation as told in Holy Writ and as experienced by the individual soul - through contrition and supplication, gratitude and worship...

In 1970, at a community college near Pittsburgh, an imperious senior professor is found dead in his office, killed by an injection of potassium cyanide into his carotid artery. By-the-book Detective Peters immediately suspects a young assistant professor, William Gavin, of the murder because of known friction between him and the victim. To clear his name, the unassuming teacher is thrust into the improbable role of amateur sleuth, and into an ambivalent association with the earnest but unimaginative Peters - who, though perplexed and perturbed by the academic's unorthodox mode of...