This début collection of poems from Timothy P. McLaughlin chronicles an inspired intimacy with the still wild places and presences of Earth. The musical, iridescent language delights the senses and draws the reader/listener back into an essential creatureliness and basic loving kinship with the natural world.
About the Author :
Timothy P. McLaughlin is a poet, celebrant, and co-founder of the Praising Earth Center for Arts & Nature. He has a longstanding devotion to weekly wanders in the wilderness where he finds his poems. His previous collections include Rooted & Risen and Seeds Under the Tongue. At Praising Earth, McLaughlin facilitates the Green Man programs, guiding men into a deepened conversation with life through the languages of poetry and myth. He lives with his wife and children in the mountainous Rio en Medio valley of northern New Mexico.
Review :
"Here is a wide-hearted man utterly in love with the broad-limbed and leafing trunks, with the antlered powers and the rain-swollen clouds. On some nights the crescent moon pours an unseen wine into his chest, and he begins to sing. His songs are these poems."
-David Abram, author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
"I love this collection-love the soul/heart's evanescence flaking into stanzaic embodiments of bright effervescence to express our oneness, our beauty and fragility..."
-Jimmy Santiago Baca, author of Singing at the Gates
"For poetry to do its magic, it must give the reader room to move freely, to change, to see anew, to evoke a leap in the heart and an opening of the mind. McLaughlin offers all of the above-and more!"
-Fr. Richard Rohr, author of Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
"McLaughlin beautifully shares his vision of our planet. His writing reflects his devotion to the Lakota way of living in harmony and communication with all forms of life. Mitakuye Oyasin."
-Basil Brave Heart, Lakota elder and author of The Spiritual Journey of a Brave Heart
"More than a faithful record of moments of true seeing, these poems can turn into ceremonies...The book becomes almost a manual on how to go out into the natural world, empty yourself, and listen."
-Morgan Farley, author of Name Yourself Feast
