When Angels Are Born is a rich collection of over fifty poems, that speak to the spiritual intimacy of life and living that we find through loving one another. "When Angels Are Born is a meditation, a prayer, a beautiful love song, an invitation “to sit quietly, in silence and in strength” and be transported into a world filled with light, where “we live inside one another” and where forgiveness is found. These uplifting and transcendent poems envelop the reader with grace and gratitude and echo these lines by St. Francis of Assisi: “All the darkness in the world cannot/ extinguish the light of a single candle.” ~ Hélène Cardona, Actor, poet and Henry James Scholar, author of Dreaming My Animal Selves

When Angels Are Born

Literature & Fiction

Starbuck, Ron

Poetry

Saint Julian Press, Inc.

When Angels Are Born celebrates poetry as a language of deep intimacy, a language meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life. ?These poems are an invitation into a world that is intimate and wondrous, one that explores the depths of all human hearts. Beckoning the reader to engage in a spiritual practice of divine intimacy that opens the eyes and ears of the human heart, and invites a person into the mystery of relationships and creation, a world of openness and timelessness. Such a practice offers the reader an opportunity to explore the mystery of human thought, interconnections, creativity, and design, our deepest intentions, in a perichoresis or divine dance of words, love, intimacy, and transformation. ?Through this dance and practice, this openness the reader may discover a spiritual indwelling, an intimacy, where we discover oneness at work throughout creation, where we find that we dwell within one another; come and dance this divine dance.

Wounded Bud - Poems for Meditation by Alfred K. LaMotte The poet Shelley wrote: "Every original language near to its source is the chaos of a cyclic poem... A poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one." Ancient cultures recognized that the mystery of creation is the mystery of "original language." So John's Gospel declares, "In the beginning was the Word." And India's Mandukya Upanishad says, "All that ever was, is, or will be is created through the syllable Om." The poems in this volume reflect this ancient science of mantra. "Man" is the Sanskrit root of the English "mind" and "tra" of our suffix "tron," meaning vehicle. A mantra is a vehicle to carry the mind back to the source of creation, divine silence. Here in the heart, love awakens. Fred LaMotte conceives language in this ancient tradition, where poetry is a means of taking us home, taking us Om. Many of these poems also reflect the tradition of the mystical marriage. Poets of Eastern and Western religions understood the intimate play of soul and spirit as the whisperings of Lover and Beloved. They created a common poetic iconography, a love-language both sensuous and mystical, which we find in Sufi poets like Hafiz, Hindu poets like Mirabai, the Biblical Song of Songs, the Medieval troubadours, and the parables of Jesus. Mystical poetry can dis- solve religious conflict. Fred LaMotte offers us a revival of atavistic poetics: poetry as meditation, poetry as devotion, or Bhakti, poetry as love-song in the Bridal Chamber of the heart. "In the lover's heart is a lute which plays the melody of longing." ~ Rumi

Wounded Bud: Poems for Meditation

Alfred K. LaMotte

Religion & Spirituality

Melissa Studdard's high-flying, bold poetic language expresses an erotic appetite for the world: "this desire to butter and eat the stars," as she says, in words characteristically large yet domestic, ambitious yet chuckling at their own nerve. This poet's ardent, winning ebullience echoes that of God, a recurring character here, who finds us Her children, splotchy, bawling and imperfect though we are, "flawless in her omniscient eyes." -Robert Pinsky In so many ways the poems in this book read like paintings, touching and absorbing the light of the known world while fingering the soul until it lifts, trembling. Gates splayed, bodies read as books, and hearts born of mouths, Studdard's study, which is a creation unto itself, would have no doubt pleased Neruda's taste for the alchemic impurity of poetry, which is, as we know, poetry that is not only most pure of heart, but beautifully generous in vision and feeling. -Cate Marvin

I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast

Melissa Studdard

Melissa Studdard's high-flying, bold poetic language expresses an erotic appetite for the world: "this desire to butter and eat the stars," as she says, in words characteristically large yet domestic, ambitious yet chuckling at their own nerve. This poet's ardent, winning ebullience echoes that of God, a recurring character here, who finds us Her children, splotchy, bawling and imperfect though we are, "flawless in her omniscient eyes." -Robert Pinsky In so many ways the poems in this book read like paintings, touching and absorbing the light of the known world while fingering the soul until it lifts, trembling. Gates splayed, bodies read as books, and hearts born of mouths, Studdard's study, which is a creation unto itself, would have no doubt pleased Neruda's taste for the alchemic impurity of poetry, which is, as we know, poetry that is not only most pure of heart, but beautifully generous in vision and feeling. -Cate Marvin

Studdard, Melissa

Written in the spirit of mysticism, Numinous is an ecstatic collection of sculpted poetry and visual design. Exploring the paradoxical realms of spiritual awakening from silence to song; absence to abundance--Numinous captures the rapture of the unseen and unexplained. Poems whirl like dervishes off the page disrobing conventions of language and transcending the world of absolutes. Numinous merges poetry with art, revealing the abstract alchemy of divine consciousness, leaving only a taste of the sacred. "Leila Fortier is not just a woman. She is the living embodiment of love, and her Numinous is what happens when love exhales: shimmering, luminous poetry and art. Following the ecstatic tradition of the divine, mystic poet, Fortier offers an encompassing interplay of seeming opposites--pages overflow with emptiness, words emanate musical silence, and we are led deeper and deeper into the lucidity of dream. Here is a collection that illustrates, page after page, what we need to remember every day, that one simple truth: All is sacred." ~ Melissa Studdard, Author of I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast "Leila Fortier's Numinous is a sizzler, full of visionary beauty. With elegantly crafted language, her poems are "Quietly burning." She invites her readers to enter a world lit with passion... "breathing your silent kiss / Where my eternity / Reigns." Her poems are informed by a timelessness where, "Words have become silence and the spaces have / Become our words" - inviting readers to remember the source of oceans, sun, snow leopards, rain, all living things, and the whisperings of the soul. Leila's poems remind us to wake up and feel the beauty of the world, "Stars spilled across the / Oil of the night." Her poems are written in the voice of the Sacred Feminine, sacred as the womb, a prayer, "Where our only /Separation / Is time / Itself." This is a book to treasure over the years." ~ Diane Frank, Author of Yoga of the Impossible

Numinous

Fortier, Leila A.

David-Glen Smith's Variations on a Theme of Desire is equal parts philosophical text, archeological exploration, fairy tale, and map of human memory. It's no surprise a book of such grand scope sees saints of music, poetry, and faith appear in its pages. These are poems of jazz and crow, of the long dead and the just living, of the topography of a dreamscape built from the bones of those who walk, briefly or lingering, across our lives. But perhaps more than anything, this book is a guide written by a poet to his young son, something the boy can tuck away so that one day, when he's ready and capable of understanding, he can read and know the map of his father's heart. How, no matter the songs that play, the lyrics just underneath the melodies say, "Remember, son, in all aspects of this fragmented world-I will never leave you." -Bryan Borland, author of Less Fortunate Pirates

Variations on a Theme of Desire

Smith, David Glen

Open Endless and Drift Away to Exotic Ports...Turn the ivory pages of Endless: A Literate Passion and find yourself at the mysterious Red Sea, the exotic Mediterranean, rainy streets of Paris, Manhattan on lonely days--and pulled into the secret lives and loves of Anais Nin, Amelia Earhart, Zelda Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Marilyn Monroe... Romantic figures dance through the pages of these imaginary narratives. What happened to Anais Nin after she fled her Paris affair with Henry Miller? And Zelda Fitzgerald after she stepped out of the Golden Girl limelight and glitterati to struggle with a descent into madness? And Amelia Earhart on that final round-the-globe flight once she dipped her toes into the waters of mystery and discovered who she actually was... With exquisite cover art by Eric Anfinson, Endless is a must for lovers of travel, of passion, of words, and of transformation... Artist Eric Anfinson, creator of Anais and Henry, explains: "Anne's writing is intimate, tactile, rhythmic and vast...I found myself taken to many places and into different periods of time...The image is a sensual, intimate mirror of the way Endless moved me..." About Anais &amp; Henry, Anfinson shares: "Henry Miller is focused on the lady in red dress, a combination of Anne Tammel and Anais Nin...Passion corners us, and yet we yearn to be there...The balcony, the space of their relationship, is surrounded by beauty and perils...Miller is seated...with the silk red journal between them, 'and red silk journals are covered in sweat and secrets...' Water, sky, and land allow for the endless waves, sky, and travel, and also represent the emotions, conscious, and unconsciousness of our lives..." Praise for Endless: A Literate Passion"ENDLESS reads like a love letter...I feel I'm inside a museum of daring sculptures, a Grecian sun glinting off the bone white marble. The collection--voluptuous, its rhythms searching, sensual, and authentic 'like a wife--an insatiable wife...a lover of silk...and words...and your breath,' finding the authentic voice within the poet's internal theater. I slipped easily into these literary shoes to stride confidently across the stage..." ~ Lois P. Jones, Kyoto Journal"ENDLESS is a mantic book, the handiwork of a sorceress and magicienne, of one whose gifts with language and perception transform the sublunary and timely into pictures of dynamic affect...to put the collection aside is suddenly to see a landscape in a new light where grey and white are perpetually moving but without invention or causality. It is refreshing and rare to read such flawless poetry. Hence, ENDLESS is an object I return to frequently and continue to keep with me." ~ Kevin McGrath, Harvard University "Anne Tammel takes the reader on a journey through a historical and literary landscape so vibrant, so generously splashed with color and love that it could only be explored through poetry. Here is a woman, who, like the great artists about whom she writes, looks at the world with extraordinary, resplendent vision...(and)...has the courage and talent to offer that vision to the world." ~ Melissa Studdard, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast "Lovely, lovely! A most impressive, artistic collection to be enjoyed by all and everyone..." ~Anders Dahlgren, Mediterranean Poetry

Endless: A Literate Passion

Anne Tammel

Open Endless and Drift Away to Exotic Ports...Turn the ivory pages of Endless: A Literate Passion and find yourself at the mysterious Red Sea, the exotic Mediterranean, rainy streets of Paris, Manhattan on lonely days--and pulled into the secret lives and loves of Anais Nin, Amelia Earhart, Zelda Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Marilyn Monroe... Romantic figures dance through the pages of these imaginary narratives. What happened to Anais Nin after she fled her Paris affair with Henry Miller? And Zelda Fitzgerald after she stepped out of the glitterati limelight to struggle with a descent into madness? And Amelia Earhart on that final flight once she dipped her toes into the waters of mystery and discovered who she actually was... With exquisite cover art by Eric Anfinson, Endless is a must for lovers of travel, of passion, of words, and of transformation... Artist Eric Anfinson, creator of Anais and Henry, explains: "Anne's writing is intimate, tactile, rhythmic and vast...I found myself taken to many places and into different periods of time...The image is a sensual, intimate mirror of the way Endless moved me..." About Anais &amp; Henry, Anfinson shares: "Henry Miller is focused on the lady in red dress, a combination of Anne Tammel and Anais Nin...Passion corners us, and yet we yearn to be there...The balcony, the space of their relationship, is surrounded by beauty and perils...Miller is seated...with the silk red journal between them, 'and red silk journals are covered in sweat and secrets...' Water, sky, and land allow for the endless waves, sky, and travel, and also represent the emotions, conscious, and unconsciousness of our lives..." Praise for Endless: A Literate Passion"ENDLESS reads like a love letter...I feel I'm inside a museum of daring sculptures, a Grecian sun glinting off the bone white marble. The collection--voluptuous, its rhythms searching, sensual, and authentic 'like a wife--an insatiable wife...a lover of silk...and words...and your breath,' finding the authentic voice within the poet's internal theater. I slipped easily into these literary shoes to stride confidently across the stage..." ~ Lois P. Jones, Kyoto Journal "ENDLESS is a mantic book, the handiwork of a sorceress and magicienne, of one whose gifts with language and perception transform the sublunary and timely into pictures of dynamic affect...to put the collection aside is suddenly to see a landscape in a new light where grey and white are perpetually moving but without invention or causality. It is refreshing and rare to read such flawless poetry. Hence, ENDLESS is an object I return to frequently and continue to keep with me." ~ Kevin McGrath, Harvard University "Anne Tammel takes the reader on a journey through a historical and literary landscape so vibrant, so vividly and generously splashed with color and love that it could only be explored through poetry. Here is a woman, who, like the great artists about whom she writes, not only looks at the world with extraordinary, resplendent vision, but who has the courage and talent to offer that vision to the world." ~ Melissa Studdard, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast "Lovely, lovely! A most impressive, artistic collection to be enjoyed by all and everyone..." ~Anders Dahlgren, Mediterranean Poetry

"Britt Posmer has obviously crossed the threshold into the state of non abiding. In a clear, liberated and liberating, unconventional voice, she gives us "the raw seduction of real love." She has traversed the underbelly of life and knows the dense and dark caverns of the human condition. Like every true shaman, she has returned to share her discoveries. Britt pulls words like arrows from an invisible quiver, while pirouetting beneath a moonless sky. Yes, a luminous quiver hewn during hours and hours-becoming-years of internal exploration. Britt is Artemis, the "huntress pregnant with god," who expresses the direct approach interwoven with unapologetic, Deep feminine, primordial wisdom!"~ from Rashani Réa, artist, activist, intimist; author of Beyond Brokenness, Shimmering Birthless and Moonlight on a Night Moth's Wing.

The Angel and the Heretic

Posmer, Britt

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When Angels Are Born

When Angels Are Born

Wounded Bud: Poems for Meditation

I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast

I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast

Numinous

Variations on a Theme of Desire

Endless: A Literate Passion

Endless: A Literate Passion

The Angel and the Heretic