A dynamic blend of history, science, psychology, dreams, and visions, Deborah DeNicola's memoir is a compelling account of self-discovery that is provocative and humble. A poet, dream analyst, and college professor DeNicola writes about her struggle to live in the ordinary world of academia while honoring the competing call of the creative and the spiritual. DeNicola's memoir shows her range of intellectual pursuits and spiritual experiences as she battles an inner war between depressive cynicism and faith and shares her lifelong search to heal the trauma of her father's tragic death when she was a teenager. Struggles between cynicism and faith, depression and hope, independence and attachment, creativity and financial security in the midst of spiritual searching, motherhood, teaching and writing are inextricably woven into the fabric of her story. Sharing the process of her awakening and how dreams and visions guide her, DeNicola stirs readers to listen courageously to their own inner voices. Her visionary quest takes her to the American West, Israel, and Southern France. Along the way she weaves together references from the Bible and the Gnostic Gospels, the story of Mary Magdalene, medieval history, the Templar Knights, the Black Madonnas, String Theory and quantum physics to find the repeated linkage between divinity and humanity.

The Future That Brought Her Here: Memoir of a Call to Awaken

Biographies & Memoirs

DeNicola, Deborah

Professionals & Academics

Ibis Press

Dazzling and refractive, each poem is jeweled with crisp movement and deliciously musical words-provocation, inquiry, and insight open into vast spiritual and philosophical realms. DeNicola explores landscapes of her own passion, her mother's decline, and her father's death and imagined afterlife through the eyes of a true visionary. These poems, extraordinary in their hard-earned wisdom, transform the personal into something beyond universal-the possibility that each life, encompassing its own suffering, questing and small ecstasies, is really a stage towards a greater "becoming." -Leslie UllmanThe pivotal keystone of The Impossible is DeNicola's fearless, twenty-one part poem that seeks to realize-how a young surgeon, her father, stumbled from his life and hers, by severe rigor ennobling his afterlife's insights into death's convergence, body and spirit fused, erased in relief and regret's grim pattycake. I've never read anything so powerfully faithful, so selflessly ambitious to assent to the soul's truth-no poetry I know is so clear-eyed, so sorrowful, so stern. After this kenosis, or self-emptying-poem after poem astounds. -Kenneth Rosen DeNicola's The Impossible is stunning throughout- however there's nothing quite like the middle sequence of poems about her father, a Chief of Surgery, and his sudden untimely death by overdose. This sustained elegy propels the reader deep into the mind of a physician who wanted- to hold notes/of compassion for invasions of pain. We watch the poignant journey as the veil opens onto metaphysical layers of a higher awareness, (reminiscent of Dante's Inferno) towards a radiant exclamation . . . ./ white as the light which shone through each being /made of matter. -Grey Held Deborah DeNicola's work in The Impossible is possibly her best. Her poems, which come from the realm where the Muse Goddess dreams, are prayers and incantations of myth, love, desire and transcendental euphoria. With the rare ability to transfix and hypnotize, in a world luxuriously realized, a landscape jazzed with music, her beats move forward as each perfect piece softly explodes. These poems of the sublime light up my synapses like a sundog or constellation. My body aches with their intuitive light. -Lenny Dellarocca.

The Impossible

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Kelsay Books

In The Light of the Dark Black Night;: One Woman's Journey Through Creative Dream Imagework & Collective Culture.

Religion & Spirituality

Independently published

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