title: Musings of the Moment: A book of poems
author:  Charles S. Rigby 
description: Charles Rigby and his wife, Ethel, have served the Lord both in pastoral roles and in evangelism since 1955. The executive director of Metropolitan Youth for Christ and the New York Bible Society for many years, he has now semi-retired to write, paint, sing concerts, speak, and teach.
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  Copyright © 2019 by Jeff Gordinier
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Tim Duggan Books, an imprint of Random
  House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
  
  
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  TIM DUGGAN BOOKS and the Crown colophon are trademarks of Penguin Random House
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  Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following to reprint previously
  published material:
  
  
  W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.: “Moment” from The Complete Poems of A. R.
  Ammons, Volume 1 1955–1977 by A. R. Ammons, edited by Robert M. West,
  copyright © 1965 by A. R. Ammons. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton &
  Company, Inc.
  
  
  Phaidon Press Limited: Excerpts from A Work in Progress: A Journal by René
  Redzepi, copyright © 2019 by Phaidon Press Limited, which originates from A
  Work in Progress, copyright © 2013. Reprinted by permission of Phaidon Press
  Limited.
  
  
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