Download or read book Earthwalking Other Poems written by Karen Ethelsdattar and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-29 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Download or read book Thou Art a Woman Other Poems written by Karen Ethelsdattar and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-02-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge written by Ginny Lowe Connors and published by Grayson Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book PaniK written by Melissa Ferina and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Hunger Enough written by Nita Penfold and published by Pudding House Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walking to Martha s Vineyard written by Franz Wright and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the “Resurrection of the little apple tree outside / my window,” he shakes off his fear of mortality, concluding “what death . . . There is only / mine / or yours,– / but the world / will be filled with the living.” In prayerlike poems he invokes the one “who spoke the world / into being” and celebrates a dazzling universe–snowflakes descending at nightfall, the intense yellow petals of the September sunflower, the planet adrift in a blizzard of stars, the simple mystery of loving other people. As Wright overcomes a natural tendency toward loneliness and isolation, he gives voice to his hope for “the only animal that commits suicide,” and, to our deep pleasure, he arrives at a place of gratitude that is grounded in the earth and its moods.
Download or read book Steam Rising Up from the Soul written by Karen Ethelsdattar and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Earthwalking Sky Dancers written by Leila Castle and published by Frog Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Ship s Career and Other Poems The History of My Life written by George Joseph Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earth Medicine written by Jamie Sams and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-10-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true spirit of Native American ways of knowing shines through in these heartfelt meditations, poems, and stories. In 364 daily offerings organised according to the cycles of the moon, Jamie Sams offers stirring and poetic insights into the spirituality of the earth, connecting with our communities, and our own soul journeys. Based on Native American creeds and legends, these meditations cut to the heart with their honesty, beauty, and authenticity. Sams teaches such grounded lessons as how to face an unknown future with confidence and conviction, how to rediscover the joy of curiosity, and how to develop a true intimacy with nature.
Download or read book A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers written by Poets and Writers, Inc. Staff and published by Poets & Writers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource. THE DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN POETS & FICTION WRITERS is a required resource for any arts or presenting organization looking for literary readers, as well as for all publishers seeking to solicit work from the best American writers. In additon, writers can use the book to find the right writing mentor and connect with other writers. "When I directed my first arts program, [the Directory] delivered the addresses and phone numbers of writers I loved, but couldn't find. How many writers and audiences are robbed without the information between these covers?"--Cornelius Eady, co-founder and co-director, Cave Canem and author of Brutal Imagination.
Download or read book Black on Earth written by Kimberly N. Ruffin and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Book Review Digest written by Leslie Dunmore-Leiber and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earthwalk written by Donnajean Barton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amerindian Rock Carper meets conniving attorneys during the probate of an estate in a small San Juan Island fishing village in Washington state. The big question is why? Multilayered with romance, suspense, comedy and other human frailties.
Download or read book Love Letter to the Earth written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh champions a more mindful, spiritual approach to protecting nature and limiting climate change—one that recognizes people and planet as one and the same. While many experts point to the enormous complexity in addressing issues ranging from the destruction of ecosystems to the loss of millions of species, Thich Nhat Hanh identifies one key issue as having the potential to create a tipping point. He believes that we need to move beyond the concept of the “environment,” as it leads people to experience themselves and Earth as two separate entities and to see the planet only in terms of what it can do for them. Here, Thich Nhat Hanh points to the lack of meaning and connection in peoples’ lives as being the cause of our addiction to consumerism. He deems it vital that we recognize and respond to the stress we are putting on the Earth if civilization is to survive. Rejecting the conventional economic approach, Thich Nhat Hanh shows that mindfulness and a spiritual revolution are needed to protect nature and limit climate change. Love Letter to the Earth is a hopeful book that gives us a path to follow by showing that change is possible only with the recognition that people and the planet are ultimately one and the same.
Download or read book We Moon 04 Layflat Binding written by Mother Tongue Ink and published by . This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the theme this year of POWER, We'Moon '04 contains inspirational art and writing by women on the growing edge of international women's culture. We'Moon offers a kaleidoscopic view of earth and the divine feminine. We'Moon '04 is now available with two types of binding: durable layflat binding and spiral binding. We'Moon '04 Unbound is identical in every way to the We'Moon except for the binding and packaging--it is loose-leaved and shrink-wrapped. We'Moon '04 Unbound gives expanded options for the varied lives of We'Moon users. It can be customized at a local copy shop for those who want a We'Moon supplement to day-planners or a customized We'Moon personal journal.
Download or read book A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers written by Poets & Writers, Inc and published by Poets & Writers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource. THE DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN POETS & FICTION WRITERS is a required resource for any arts or presenting organization looking for literary readers, as well as for all publishers seeking to solicit work from the best American writers. In additon, writers can use the book to find the right writing mentor and connect with other writers. "When I directed my first arts program, [the Directory] delivered the addresses and phone numbers of writers I loved, but couldn't find. How many writers and audiences are robbed without the information between these covers?"--Cornelius Eady, co-founder and co-director, Cave Canem and author of Brutal Imagination.
