Author: Karen Ethelsdattar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469104067
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 143
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Karen Ethelsdattars poems, written out of the politics of the heart and the depths of the spirit, speak to the eternal questions. What is it to be a woman, a daughter, a sister, a mother? What is it to be a person? What is it to be in love with the natural world? What is sacred? Connected to the earth, reaching toward the sky, embracing family and friends and stranger and fellow creature. They sing, they swing, they dance, they bow, they stand tall. They celebrate solitude and relationship and community, nature and art. Critical Praise for Earthwalking: "Thank you for your most amazing and beautiful poem, "Earthwalking." Thank you for receiving and writing it, and for sending it to me. The gift of receiving words for my own half-conscious experience...Your book of poems is absolutely exquisite, a joy to read, a pleasure for the soul and the senses. I cannot thank you enough for sending it to me. I have enjoyed sending it among my friends, and they thank you, too. --Joanna Macy,, author of World as Lover, World as Self "Thanks so much for Earthwalking. I love the poems and their spirits. The work is an inspiration to me" --Shaun Mcniff, author of Earth Angels "Now I begin to make music again on the skin of the drum, with my palms, with my fingertips, the rhythm shivering back through me, the beat entering & reverberating back up through the earth. I walk with my fingers, I walk with my feet. I walk to earth's heartbeat." Karen Ethelsdattar's poems celebrate the ordinary and recognize in it the extraordinary. They make us glad to be alive. This is a book of gratitude for the simple things of life: a flowered summer blouse, an avocado plant rooted in water by her son, a bee and the seasons and the rain. This is a book of reverence for life: the earth itself, a spider and its torn web, her treasured cats, her twin sister who died at 34, a daughter, a son, grandchildren, a mother and father in their last years, friend and lover. This is a book of appreciations: for Georgia O'Keeffe and Hokusai, for one friend's painting of tomatoes and another's photographs of "the ten thousand things," for a Mexican flamenco dancer and Indian temple sculptures. These poems play with form and range in mood from the contemplative to the passionate. They will touch you where you live. "I walk with my fingers, I walk with my feet. I walk to earth's heartbeat. Again & again I am a woman walking, walking to where she turns into the earth."
Author: Karen Ethelsdattar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469104075
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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Here are poems that wrestle with angels, that ask Who is holy, What is sacred? These are womens poems that speak also to men. Poems that honor friend and family and lover. Poems that honor both God and Goddess, as well as the human creature, the beauty of nature, the precious small gifts and actions of everyday life. Poems that honor other artists. Poems that cry out the insanity of war and speak for peace: inner peace, peace between you & me, peace among nations. Plaudits for Ethelsdattars first book, Earthwalking & other poems, Xlibris. Thank you for your most amazing and beautiful poem, Earthwalking. Thank you for receiving and writing it, and for sending it to me. The gift of receiving words for my own half-conscious experience. Your book of poems is absolutely exquisite, a joy to read, a pleasure for the soul and the senses. I cannot thank you enough for sending it to me. I have enjoyed sharing it among my friends, and they thank you, too. Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self Thanks so much for Earthwalking. I love the poems and their spirits. The work is an inspiration to me. Shaun McNiff, author of Earth Angels
Author: Ginny Lowe Connors
Publisher: Grayson Books
ISBN: 9780967555454
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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More than 100 contemporary American poets write about marriage in this anthology. Along with poems for weddings and anniversaries, there are reflections on nearly every aspect of married life.
Author: Melissa Ferina
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578093553
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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PaniK is a compilation of true stories submitted by men and women from all over the United States. They have experienced some of life's greatest challenges-single parenting, abortion, adoption, miscarriage, and stillbirth. This collection of 60 stories will give the reader a new perspective, heal a wound, or just embrace another, through words. This book is NOT pro-life or pro-choice. It is real life and what we make of it. These amazing stories will help give support to those who are or who will be going through similar circumstances. This project also gives the writer an outlet to finally have a voice. This is an on-going project. You can submit your story to be a part of this ever growing project. Testimonial for this project. "I feel that Help Inspire Others is a powerful force through which people, who have seen and felt the same experiences, can come together and offer support when the journey becomes turbulent." For more information visit www.Helpinspireothers.com.
Author: Nita Penfold
Publisher: Pudding House Publications
ISBN: 9781589982499
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: Karen Ethelsdattar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1425714315
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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Dialogues with cab drivers, dedications to her cat. The art & act of writing. Learning to love herself. Pain & rage at war, the violation of body & soul, civilian & soldier. Karen Ethelsdattar's new collection gathers poems written over several decades & deepens her exploration of politics of the heart. Karen not only writes about spirit and Earth, she writes as spirit, as Earth
Author: Leila Castle
Publisher: Frog Books
ISBN: 9781883319335
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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In this collection, Leila Castle has gathered together women writing about spiritual initiation, identity, and transformation. Their pilgrimages are inspired by places sacred to many traditions worldwide—among them Old European Goddess, geomancy, Tibetan Buddhism, Native American, Peruvian shamanism, and Mayan. Their stories explore interdependence and autonomy, connection to the earth, and developing a new spiritual voice. They relate journeys to far-off Australia, Hawaii, and Africa, as well as to rural England and New Mexico. Sometimes they write and about becoming a person vastly different from the wife, mother, artist student, or academic individual who started the journey. Inspiring and illuminating, these are adventures stories into the unknown and deeply felt. Honoring the sacred feminine energy of the earth, these women are also working towards rebalancing male and female energies in culture and relationships.
Author: George Joseph Williamson
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Author: Leslie Dunmore-Leiber
Publisher:
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Category : Book review digest
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Author: Kimberly N. Ruffin
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033720X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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American environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European Americans, often ignoring other groups. In Black on Earth, Kimberly Ruffin expands the reach of ecocriticism by analyzing the ecological experiences, conceptions, and desires seen in African American writing. Ruffin identifies a theory of “ecological burden and beauty” in which African American authors underscore the ecological burdens of living within human hierarchies in the social order just as they explore the ecological beauty of being a part of the natural order. Blacks were ecological agents before the emergence of American nature writing, argues Ruffin, and their perspectives are critical to understanding the full scope of ecological thought. Ruffin examines African American ecological insights from the antebellum era to the twenty-first century, considering WPA slave narratives, neo–slave poetry, novels, essays, and documentary films, by such artists as Octavia Butler, Alice Walker, Henry Dumas, Percival Everett, Spike Lee, and Jayne Cortez. Identifying themes of work, slavery, religion, mythology, music, and citizenship, Black on Earth highlights the ways in which African American writers are visionary ecological artists.
