Nature's Calling

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Mouthbrooders

by Nawrocki, Amy

Where does language originate, especially the language of poetry?in the brain or the emotions? In the images we behold, or in the memory? In this deeply observant collection, Amy Nawrocki asks, "What language do you have / for the barren days when nothing catches your eye?" And although "The contortionist is unable to speak / from all her sword swallowing," Nawrocki whose brain and emotions once...

Before the Sun Rises

by Morgan, Gwendolyn

Before the Sun Rises is poetry of awakening and listening to the natural world at this turbulent time on our planet. Gwendolyn Morgan evokes a dreamtime threshold of climate change, global initiations, corvid and celestial convergences...

The Voices of Rivers

by Dickerson, Matthew

Dickerson’s lovingly crafted narratives take us to waters from sockeye spawning streams of Alaska’s Lake Clark and Katmai National Parks, to Rocky Mountain rivers in the national parks and forests of Montana and Wyoming, to the little brook trout creeks in his home waters of Maine...

A Fistful of Stars

by Collins-Ranadive, Gail

We are made up of star stuff! This elegant idea became tangibly real when the liberal clergy author was handed a cottonwood twig with a tiny star hiding inside. Gathering up fists full of these star sticks, and in collaboration with her ‘rocket scientist’ partner, she set out to reframe the human experience within its cosmic context...

Terranexus

by Leff, David K.

Connect with ordinary places close to home. Discover inspiration and beauty nearby through the art of deep travel. Intrigue and wonder beckon just beyond your doorstep.

The Bone Pile

by Werner, Maximilian

In The Bone Pile: Essays on Nature and Culture, author Maximilian Werner uses the vehicles of fly fishing, every day experience, and some of our most sacred rituals to explore the origins and limitations of our behavior and ideas. These essays range from the quasi-mystical to the polemical and from the polemical to the ecological...

The Expanse of all Things

by Smith, James Scott

In the spirit of coyote guidance through the borderland of liminal space, James Scott Smith is offering one exquisite cairn after another to the soul wandering but not lost. The Expanse of All Things is a testament of the journey from form to faith, and of the love for tradition as long as it serves the evolution of consciousness...

The Comet's Tail

by Nawrocki, Amy

I do not remember the tubes, the tests, or the icy cold of space. I do not remember losing six months of my life.At age nineteen, Amy Nawrocki returned from her first year of college, scribbled a few notes in her journal, and took a terrifying summer trip. She remembers one night of disorientation, then nothing until Christmas, when awareness slowly restarts...

The Strait

by Jarvis, Andrew

The Strait explores sensory experiences gleamed from the natural environment, historic traditions, archeological findings, and folklore of the Pacific Northwest. Jarvis presents a spiritual and honest landscape rich with images and metaphors that define our place in this beautiful, multicultural world and what it means to be human...

Tinker's Damn

by Leff, David K.

Deeply rooted in place and time, these poems explore nature, the built environment, and human relationships with an acute sense of reverence and wonder that renews the spirit.

Seasons of Contemplation

by Browning, L.M.

In Seasons of Contemplation, Browning offers the reader humble yet impacting meditations on the topics of religion, connection, mindfulness, ecology, the spiritual journey, and the perils of modern culture. The ruminations gathered within these pages provide simple insights that help bring sense to the chaos and hustle of our daily life...

Stories Dreamed from Dust and Distant Light

by Abel, Walker

In his second collection, Walker Abel continues to voice the archetypal and contemplative presences awaiting us within the natural world. These are poems of surprise, poems of revelation. Not quite fairy tale, not quite magical realism, the poems are stories out of the unconscious, which is to say, out of the wild. For Abel, the poem is a threshold...

The Salmon in the Spring

by Kirkey, Jason

Here at the end of the Cenozoic Era with the life systems withering away, a surprising creativity appears, a kind of mystical balancing act. The world’s spiritual traditions are entering into deeply engaged conversations through which the riches of each are ignited in new ways...

Night, Mystery & Light

by McDowell, J.K.

"McDowell often ends his poems with a challenge to 'Jim,' a question usually asking him to make sense of his life. Yet as we feel our way through the earlier stanzas, living within their diaphanous walls, we overhear this final question as if it were directed at us. One of the joys of reading McDowell's poetry is precisely this-that his questions urge us to make deeper sense of our own lives...

Creatively Maladjusted

by Richards, Theodore

Education is the subject of much public debate. Politicians and bureaucrats, educators and parents, students and concerned citizens all have an interest—and a stake—in the way we educate our children...

Crow Feathers, Red Ochre, Green Tea

by Morgan, Gwendolyn

Gwendolyn Morgan’s first collection, Crow Feathers, Red Ochre, Green Tea, offers richly textured poetic renderings of natural landscapes and emotional nuances in response to those landscapes...

by Collins-Ranadive, Gail

Steeped in the faith tradition of the American Transcendentalists (the majority of whom, like Emerson, were Unitarian ministers) the author's own spiritual life was likewise grounded and guided by nature. So of course she said yes to a career in interim ministry that would require her to relocate every summer...

Chewing Sand

by Collins-Ranadive, Gail

What happens when an Easterner who needs trees, hates heat, and doesn't gamble spends a year living in Las Vegas? Follow the author's reflections as she comes to appreciate the surrounding desert so deeply that she returns seven years later to hear more of the Mojave's message...

The Crucifixion

by Richards, Theodore

The Crucifixion is a modern American myth reframing the Old Testament in terms of the flight of African Americans from the Deep South during the Great Migration and the New Testament as the struggle for meaning in the modern, urban America. It is the story of a young man who is lost and alone, and must return to the city of his birth to find his place in the world...

Airstream

by Henderson, Audrey

Vagabonds, prophets and vanishing societies, hunters of rare species and rare truths, silent canyons and the New Jersey Turnpike-Audrey Henderson's witty and profound poems lead us on a pilgrimage to the extreme edges of artistic and spiritual exploration.

My Mother's Kitchen

by Ekkanath Klein, Meera

My Mother's Kitchen is an enchanting place filled with promise, change and good food. If the weathered walls of this magical room could talk they would tell the story of Meena and her childhood life. Each chapter is a slice in her young life and depicts her spunk and youthful spirit. A visit to the local Fruit and Flower Show becomes an adventure as told by Meena...

Wildness

"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." ? John Muir Celebrating Homebound Publications' 5th Anniversary, the press gathers a circle of 19 of its most beloved authors to create this anthology celebrating the confluence of the internal and natural landscape.

Reconnaissance

by Nawrocki, Amy

In her latest collection, Amy Nawrocki plays voyeur and thief, surveying canvases and investigating bookshelves, searching for creativity's origins and exploring the nature of inspiration...

Four Blue Eggs

by Nawrocki, Amy

Four Blue Eggs is sense music, an exploration of beginnings and of endings. In this collection of poems, Amy Nawrocki intuits fireflies and sapphires, observes gardens rooted in glasses of water, and tests the bindings of old books. Solace abounds-in winter's white, in the hefty doors of an Oldsmobile, in half melted candles...

The Uncallused Hand

by Abel, Walker

This is poetry kindled by weeks in wilderness. Its muse is nature, which encompasses both the wild beauty of earth and the mystery of self and its sometimes erotic, sometimes mystical, relationship with the other. The poems are lyrical, tonal, evocative-enamored in a sensual way of being, but also drawn at times toward the counterpart of non-being...

Having Listened

by Whited, Gary

Having Listened offers a collection of poems that speak from the confluence of a childhood on the prairie remembered and an encounter with the haunting voice of Parmenides echoing across 2500 years. These poems might draw you into your own listening places, to places unheard before, to places whose voices have been forgotten or half remembered.

Rolling up the Sky

by Flaherty Haltmaier, Linda

"The poems in Rolling up the Sky tell stories about mothers and daughters, about struggle, about grief ― but no matter how painful their occasions, these poems are full of warmth and humor...

Ruminations at Twilight

by Browning, L.M.

The cure for our modern maladies is dirt under the fingernails and the feel of thick grass between the toes. The cure for our listlessness is to be out within the invigorating wind. The cure for our uselessness is to take back up our stewardship; for it is not that there has been no work to be done, we simply have not been attending to it...

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Fleeting Moments of Fierce Clarity
by Browning, L.M.
Fleeting moments of fierce clarity are had when the confusion clears and the gray numbness that hangs about our senses draws back, allowing us to see the world and ourselves with sharp relief. Follow author and New England native L.M...
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The Conversions
by Richards, Theodore
In his novel, The Conversions, Richardsdeals with some of the most pressing questions at this moment in history: What kind of world can be created with the end of industrial civilization? What is truly at the root of the so-called clash of civilizations? What is the place for religion in the post-modern world? Is American identity only about defining and excluding the other? What does a...
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The Foundation of Summer
by Lehman, Eric D.
A scholar forges a masterpiece, a drug dealer solves a mystery, two trackers chase each other through the space between the suburbs. Join the fanatics, impostors, murderers and fools who inhabit Eric D. Lehman's The Foundation of Summer, as they search New England for a season of transcendence.
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Afoot in Connecticut
by Lehman, Eric D.
Afoot in Connecticut, is a love letter to this often overlooked region of America, an inspirational story that will have you taking to the trails and the greenways, along the beaches and mountaintops, and into a land full of transformation, of beauty, and of strength.
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Mouthbrooders

Before the Sun Rises

The Voices of Rivers

A Fistful of Stars

Terranexus

The Bone Pile

The Expanse of all Things

The Comet's Tail

The Strait

Tinker's Damn

Seasons of Contemplation

Stories Dreamed from Dust and Distant Light

The Salmon in the Spring

Night, Mystery & Light

Creatively Maladjusted

Crow Feathers, Red Ochre, Green Tea

Nature's Calling

Chewing Sand

The Crucifixion

Airstream

My Mother's Kitchen

Wildness

Reconnaissance

Four Blue Eggs

The Uncallused Hand

Having Listened

Rolling up the Sky

Ruminations at Twilight

Fleeting Moments of Fierce Clarity

The Conversions

The Foundation of Summer

Afoot in Connecticut

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