{"product_id":"9781469104065","title":"Earthwalking \u0026 Other Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eKaren Ethelsdattar’s poems, written out of the politics of the heart and the depths of the spirit, speak to the eternal questions. What is it to be a woman, a daughter, a sister, a mother? What is it to be a person? What is it to be in love with the natural world? What is sacred? Connected to the earth, reaching toward the sky, embracing family and friends and stranger and fellow creature. They sing, they swing, they dance, they bow, they stand tall. They celebrate solitude and relationship and community, nature and art.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritical Praise for \u003ci\u003eEarthwalking\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Thank you for your most amazing and beautiful poem, \"Earthwalking.\" Thank you for receiving and writing it, and for sending it to me. The gift of receiving words for my own half-conscious experience...Your book of poems is absolutely exquisite, a joy to read, a pleasure for the soul and the senses. I cannot thank you enough for sending it to me. I have enjoyed sending it among my friends, and they thank you, too.\u003c\/p\u003e               \u003cp\u003e--\u003cb\u003eJoanna Macy,\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWorld as Lover, World as Self\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Thanks so much for Earthwalking. I love the poems and their spirits. The work is an inspiration to me\"\u003c\/p\u003e               \u003cp\u003e--\u003cb\u003eShaun Mcniff\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eEarth Angels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Now I begin to make music again on the skin of the drum,  \u003cbr\u003ewith my palms, with my fingertips, \u003cbr\u003ethe rhythm shivering back through me,  \u003cbr\u003ethe beat entering \u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; reverberating \u003cbr\u003eback up through the earth.  \u003cbr\u003eI walk with my fingers, \u003cbr\u003eI walk with my feet.  \u003cbr\u003eI walk to earth's heartbeat.\"  \u003cp\u003eKaren Ethelsdattar's poems celebrate the ordinary and recognize in it the extraordinary. They make us glad to be alive.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eThis is a book of gratitude for the simple things of life: a flowered summer blouse, an avocado plant rooted in water by her son, a bee and the seasons and the rain.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eThis is a book of reverence for life: the earth itself, a spider and its torn web, her treasured cats, her twin sister who died at 34, a daughter, a son, grandchildren, a mother and father in their last years, friend and lover.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eThis is a book of appreciations: for Georgia O'Keeffe and Hokusai, for one friend's painting of tomatoes and another's photographs of \"the ten thousand things,\" for a Mexican flamenco dancer and Indian temple sculptures.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eThese poems play with form and range in mood from the contemplative to the passionate. They will touch you where you live.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\"I walk with my fingers,  \u003cbr\u003eI walk with my feet. \u003cbr\u003eI walk to earth's heartbeat.   \u003cbr\u003eAgain \u0026amp; again  \u003cbr\u003eI am a woman walking, \u003cbr\u003ewalking to where she turns into the earth.\"","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163010646256,"sku":"9781469104065","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469104065_p0.jpg?v=1763698013","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469104065","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}