The banner of humankind blows over Pacem in Terris whenever it is open. The five stripes symbolize five subdivisions of the one human race; brown, black, red, white, yellow, unite at the top, each one is free to blow in the wind according to its own nature. The banner is tubular, so there is no first no last! No one is on top, no one at the bottom. Each stripe is double: Male/female. For: To be human, or not to be, that’s the questions!

Pacem in Terris: A Love Story (Codhill Press)

Frederick Franck

Biographies & Memoirs

Codhill Press

“Venice is so much more than canals, bridges, gondolas. It is an unbroken sequence of ever-changing moods; festive; frivolous, elegiac and melancholy, forever foreign yet totally intimate.” –from Seeing VeniceTake a luminous journey deep into the heart of hidden Venice, with Frederick Franck as your guide. His quietly evocative drawings and descriptions bring to vivid life the city of islands, La Serenissima, the Queen of the Sea, “that most human of cities,” Venice. Franck explores cafes, alleyways, and the myriad moods and characters of the Venetians, providing an enlivening glimpse into a city he sees as a microcosm of creation, “an immense and living indoor and outdoor studio.”“Frederick Franck is one of a rare and precious breed―an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly roams our materialistic world and shows us that even here, even now, there is hope for our soul.” –Jacob Needleman, author of Money and the Meaning of Life“Frederick Franck is the rarest of human beings, a true eclectic―in touch with the perennial…and with all his drawings, his beautiful, compassionate drawings!” –Robert Aitken Roshi, author of Taking the Path of ZenFrederick Franck’s sculpture and artwork are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Tokyo National Museum, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and other public and private collections. He is the author of over thirty books, including the perennial classic The Zen of Seeing and the award-winning Pacem in Terris: A Love Story, as well as What It Means to be Human, recently published by St. Martin’s Press. It has appeared in Chinese and Spanish translations. At 93 years of age, he continues to be actively engaged in art, writing, and the search for meaning in this world/

Seeing Venice: An Eye in Love : An Inner Travelogue With 94 Drawings (Codhill Press)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

In A Passion for Seeing, Frederick Franck establishes himself as a prime minister witness to the twentieth century. Read in this anthology the best of Franck’s observations: from the onset of the Second World War to private audiences with Pope John XXIII and H.H. the Dalai Lama, from his work with Albert Schweitzer in Africa to the art and wisdom of ancient Japan, follow his art and thought as they illuminate our world. “Frederick Franck’s work is a perpetual prayer for peace. He implores in not only visually but also through thought. Above all, he asks that we recall the meaning of life, which in the words of Hui Neng, Six Zen Patriarch, to see.” ―from the foreword by David Appelbaum “His sincere dialogues with the spiritual masters of the East show us the possibilities of a universal ecumenism that is rarely experienced.” ―Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing “For the pilgrim in each of us…what better comparison that Frederick Franck? His wise, witty, compassionate observations-in lively words and livelier drawings-jolt us awake to the wealth of our planetary heritage.” ―Joanna Macy, author of World as Lovers, World as Self. “He simply sees things most people do not…” ―Harvey Cox, author of The Secular City Frederick Franck’s artwork is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Tokyo National Museum, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and other public and private collections. He is the author of over thirty books, including the perennial bestseller The Zen of Seeing (Random House) and Pacem in Terris: A Love Story (Codhill Press) which was recognized by Spirituality and Health magazine as one of the best spiritual books of 2001. At 95 years of age, he continues to be actively engaged in art, activism, writing and the search for meaning in this world

A Passion for Seeing: On Being an Image Maker (Codhill Press)

FRANCK, Frederick

Religion & Spirituality

An impressionistic history of the Western spiritual tradition. Two powerful motives weave beneath the surface of our spiritual history: the desire to know and the desire to love. The secret history of the West is the story of saints, mystics, alchemists, poets, and philosophers trying to unite these two streams and celebrate the sacred marriage of Logos and Sophia, Word and Wisdom. This book, an impressionistic history of the Western spiritual tradition, follows the traces―from ancient Greece into modern times―of those who sought to know the world and themselves, while realizing that they must overcome themselves to love the world and each other. “Christopher Bamford is one of the few who can wed sagacity and beauty. Reading a text like this sets the heart on fire with love of God and gratitude for those who have devoted their lives, with whatever measure of success, to the myriad paths of the Christian life.” –from the Introduction by Philip Zaleski “Admirers of Christopher Bamford have long waited the great work on the Christian esoteric tradition that they knew he harbored. Now it appears, with all the benefits of ripeness and a life lived with rare spiritual intensity. This is a book to be read and revisited as one’s own wisdom grows, hopefully, to meet it.” –Joscelyn Godwin, author of Harmonies of Heaven and Earth “This profoundly spiritual book…reveals the hidden unity between matter and spirit, between humanity, nature and the divine. Bamford writes under the sign of Hermes and in the tradition of the great spiritual romantics Novalis, Goethe, and Blake. At heart, his work, like theirs, embodies the mystical currents of Christianity. We are fortunate indeed to have such a voice in times like these.” –Arthur Versluis, author of Restoring Paradise, Wisdom’s Children Christopher Bamford is the editor-in-chief of SteinerBooks and Lindsfarne Books. A Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, he has lectured, taught, and written widely on Western spiritual and esoteric traditions, and is a contributing editor to Lapis magazine. He is the author, translator, and editor to numerous books, including The Voice of the Eagle; Celtic Christianity: Ecology and Holiness; Homage to Pythagoras; Rediscovering Sacred Science; and The Noble Traveller. An essay of his was included in the HarperSanFransico anthology Best Spiritual Writing 2000.

An Endless Trace: The Passionate Pursuit of Wisdom in the West (Codhill Press)

Politics & Social Sciences

Christopher Bamford

Philosophy

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Photographs by Jane English. The distilled wisdom of over a dozen years of corporate consulting and a twenty-year meditation practice, LIGHTNING: THE NATURE OF LEADERSHIP combines powerful words with evocative nature photography to reminds us of the larger context in which we live our professional lives. Scher shows us how our actions in our work lives are intimately connected with the larger world we live in, and how natural laws apply to such seemingly mundane activities as meetings, phone calls, and the daily decisions each of us are called to make. The book is a gift to keep nearby for inspiration and guidance, and as a constant reminder of the bigger picture.

Lightning: The Nature of Leadership (Codhill Press)

Scher, Bob

In this cruel era of killings, war and torture a powerful confirmation of what is still human in us humans.

Ode to the Human Face: Seeing/Molding the Human Face As Meditation (Codhill Press)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

A book-length, epic poem of the town of New Paltz, New York,

Nieuw Pfalz, Book 1 'The Burial' (Codhill Press)

Appelbaum, David

Bufalino explores the recent history of tap dance and shares stories about her early training and professional career experiences, as well as the wisdom gleaned from her mentor, partner and collaborator, the late Charles Honi Coles. As a master teacher and biographical performer known for her fluid musicality and extensive vocabulary, Ms. Bufalino's stories, techniques and philosophy will inspire and encourage everyone to find the timber and rhythm of their voice, whether in tap shoes or hiking boots, on the piano or the typewriter, on a mountain trail or on the floorboards.

Tapping The Source: Tap Dance Stories, Theory And Practice

Brenda Bufalino

Humor & Entertainment

Praise for Steve Clorfeine's work: "I found myself carried by his words...often an unremarkable or extravagantly beautiful list of things and events was made brilliant by the attention paid to their existence." ―Parabola: Myth, Tradition and the Search for Meaning "Clorfeine's day to day experiences read like a series of prose haikus...there is a clarity in his writing...a habit of seeing the ordinary and the extraordinary, the marvelous in the mundane..." ―Woodstock Times

Field Road Sky (Codhill Press)

Steve Clorfeine

Scholar in Comparative Religion and co-author of Shlomo s Stories (Jason Arson), Mesinai was chosen one of Columbia University s 250 greatest graduates for her search for Raoul Wallenberg and other foreign prisoners who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag after World War II. Although she has published occasionally in New York, San Francisco, and Japan this is her first book of poetry.  Susan Mesinai s poems are spiritual, inquisitive, and generous an alchemy of language. With imagistic lines and surprising off-rhymes, their many cadenced voices range from Raoul Wallenberg s isolation cell to Jacob s ladder-totem-pole; Kali s broad sweeping grounds to a mother s mother s healing well; a daughter who plants her feet on mine laughing backwards to a wife s full moon face, braver than any war. I m grateful for these new connections to this bright, agile world of constantly renewing relationships. Christianne Balk, Author of Bindweed and Desiring Flight  Susan Mesinai, activist, poet, moral conscience, sends dispatches from a spiritual battlefront lyrical, personal, fiercely honest, an American Akhmatova, Mesinai bears witness to the madness of her time, and to hard-won moments of sanity and hope in this incandescent collection of poems. Marcus Boon, York University, Author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs"

Welsh Woman Wandering & Other Poems (Codhill Press)

Susan Ellen Mesinai

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