Eat the Dirt: 52 Poems on God and Being Human

In this unflinching collection, Heather Hamilton excavates the raw terrain where faith meets flesh, where the sacred collides with suffering. These poems are acts of spiritual archaeology-digging through layers of doubt, desire, and divine hunger. Eat the Dirt maps the geography of a life lived in tension between heaven and earth-between the dust we came from and the light we reach toward. With visceral honesty and startling intimacy, Heather Hamilton explores the simultaneous revulsion and reverence we feel toward our earthbound existence, the way God tastes both bitter as dirt and sweet as honey on our tongues. These poems are for anyone who has ever felt simultaneously too human and not human enough. Eat the Dirt reminds us that sometimes the most sacred act is simply learning how to swallow what we cannot understand.

About the Author :
Heather Hamilton is the Author of Returning to Eden: A Field Guide for the Spiritual Journey and Eat the Dirt: 52 Poems on God and Being Human. She has appeared on numerous podcast, television, and radio programs, including NPR. Returning to Eden is featured in the Mythological Resources Database at the Joseph Campbell Foundation.Heather received her B.A. in Journalism from Georgia State University and spent many years doing video production before discovering her love of writing. After filming and editing stories with people from all over the world-celebrities, orphans, religious leaders, royal family members, political figures, and everyday people-Heather recognized the common threads and themes intertwining all humans across religions, cultures, classes, and demographics. She is passionate about fostering human connection through storytelling, writing, art, and exchanging ideas.She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. You can find her work at ReturningtoEden.com

Review :
"These poems from Heather...they're dirty and serene and angsty and wondering and tender and feisty and loud and quiet and resilient...they make you feel more alive." -Rob Bell, Author of New York Times bestseller Love Wins "The poetic gives the possibility of speech to the previously ineffable. And that is what I find in the God-saturated poems in Eat the Dirt. Heather Hamilton is a gifted poet exploring the greatest of mysteries." -Brian Zahnd, Author of The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross "The poems in this fine collection venture down the dark descent and seek the light that's buried deep, the light of encounter rather than escape, 'the light of life born in a manger'." -Malcolm Guite, Poet, Priest, and Author "Heather Hamilton's new collection of poems will show you what poetry can do: using a few words to take you to moments of insight beyond words." -Brian D. McLaren, Author of Life After Doom and The Last Voyage "It is an enormous risk-to give oneself away to the world-but what a bittersweet delight to hear the sound of that emptying. Heather's poetry... sings." -Levi Macallister (Levi the Poet), Spoken-word Artist and Author "Each of Heather's 52 poems is a pathway into a more honest, courageous, and unshackled relationship with oneself and life. Poetry invites you into places where no systematic theology can go, and Heather Hamilton's Eat the Dirt are verses that open insights you won't encounter in pop-spirituality writings or seminary books." -Jim Palmer, Founder of The Center for Non-Religious Spirituality, Author of Inner Anarchy