The Hydromantic Histories

Poetry. THE HYDROMANTIC HISTORIES is a meditation on both personal and cultural mythology. Humans have been fashioning mythos and spinning creation narratives—of various sorts—for thousands of years. The poems in this book are preoccupied with illuminating by example: What do we gain from our myths? What do they teach us, and what do they cost us? What freedoms, foci, and reprieve do they offer, and how? This book is interested in the alchemy that ultimately facilitates the substance of our known universe: human darkness, in all its shades of cruelty, suffering, and ignorance—and its constantly- shifting dance with the illumination of joy, kindness, and knowledge. THE HYDROMANTIC HISTORIES is an interrogation of how we express and navigate the multiplicity of selves and realities that permeate our individual and collective human experience—and hopes to suggest a continued trajectory towards some sort of higher consciousness.