Poems deal with rural life, nature, travel, death, love, poetry, the seasons, war, and the past

Travelling Light: Poems

Literature & Fiction

McCullough, Ken

Poetry

Thunder's Mouth Pr

Fiction. A collection of thirty-five vignettes from new author Ken McCullough of Seismicity Editions, a project of the Otis College of Art and Design. McCullough's selections span various time periods and locations to present a wide-ranging cast of characters.I rose from a grove of scrub oak, at the thick of the planet, on a point of land, in a cove near Bath, Maine. It was the last leg of August. I thought the tent was burning—just the woodsmoke in my clothes. I could hear the morning tide.

Left Hand

Otis Books | Seismicity Editions

My Old Man Tree

Biographies & Memoirs

Lulu Publishing Services

In a harrowing but ultimately triumphant affirmation of the human spirit, celebrated Cambodian poet U Sam Oeur narrates his incredible life story, testifies to the horrors of genocide and shares his fervent prayers for peace and freedom through the process of democracy.
Born in 1936 to a large and moderately prosperous farming family, Oeur spent his childhood herding water buffalo and tending rice paddies in the lush Cambodian countryside. He was educated under the French colonial system and selected to attend California State University in Los Angeles. While in the United States, he awakened to the possibilities of the democratic ideal and went on to receive his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Upon returning to Cambodia in 1968, Oeur married, became a captain in Lon Nol’s army, served in the National Assembly and was part of the Cambodian delegation to the United Nations. When Pol Pot assumed power in 1975, Oeur, having vowed to help establish democracy in Cambodia and unaware of the events ahead, elected to stay. Driven out of Phnom Phen with millions of the city’s residents, Oeur, along with his wife and son, miraculously survived the killing fields, feigning illiteracy and relying upon the skills he had learned as a child to endure six forced-labor camps over the next four years. Millions, however, died during the Khmer Rouge regime, including Oeur’s twin daughters.
Crossing Three Wildernesses is a personal account of survival, an astute political analysis and a beautiful illustration of the Cambodian culture—its people, myths and traditions. In a world still plagued by genocide and terror, this remarkable memoir is a moving call to freedom and a passionate plea for peace.
A devout Buddhist, U Sam Oeur is the author of the bilingual collection of poems Sacred Vows. He lives in Texas, where he continues to translate the poems of Walt Whitman into Khmer.

Crossing Three Wildernesses

Oeur, U Sam

Historical

Coffee House Press

This is a book about relationships: ours with each other, and with the natural world. Ken McCullough demonstrates a profound understanding and acceptance of the balance between light and dark in the universe. These poems span a lifetime, from the glories of childhood to the embracing of mortality; his words are passionate and elegant, and meditate on life from the perspective of one who has lived it fully. Considering the title of the book, Walking Backwards, one comes to the realization that the poet is retracing his steps without looking, because he has faith in his inner vision. Walking backwards into his own past and our shared past, he speaks to us with wit and humility, as prophet, trickster, father, lover, friend and teacher.

Walking Backwards

1ST WORLD LIBRARY

Obsidian Point chronicles one man's continuing spiritual quest as he revisits Mt. Hornaday in the Beartooth Range of northern Wyoming over a sixteen year period. 
There is keen observation of both the exterior and interior world, and the language and rhythms of the backcountry abound and are finely tuned. 
As with other books in this tradition, Obsidian Point is a record of a journey but also a map for future travelers.

Obsidian Point

Lone Oak Pr

Poetry. In Ken McCullough's seventh book of poetry, there's a rich lyricism through which he expresses his acceptance of our multifarious and challenging world and his place in it—with wisdom, humility and humor. As Jean Feraca says, "Ken McCullough is an old soul. His poetry is shamanic; it weaves along a liminal edge and then suddenly, pulls you underground.... It works like an umbilicus. At the point when you most desire to disappear, it brings you back to earth."

Broken Gates

Red Dragonfly Press

Paul Eluard once said “There is another world but it is in this one.” In Dark Stars, Ken McCullough presents a compendium of the human condition, always grounded in the natural world, and often in totemic relationships. There is lost innocence, love present, and back through time, there are tributes to friends and mentors. McCullough keeps one foot in the primal world and the other in community, yet he travels confidently from one to the other. You hear the poet making peace with mortality. Though this is a slim volume it has a deep and engaging sweep. It is a rough bouquet collected en plein air. We are left wanting more.

Dark Stars

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