These searching and evocative poems ask what happens when symbols rooted in the natural world, which have traditionally helped to make sense of human life and offered initiation into experiences of the numinous, become devalued, corrupted and tenuous.
How do we keep a sense of connection between earth, self, and culture when the physical roots of that culture are treated as disposable, or as commodities to be bought and sold -- or when profound symbolic material is undermined or made questionable by the legacy of recent history and changing social attitudes? The author explores these questions as they intersect with timeless themes of youth, ageing, death, transcendence, and love for people, history and place.
This is not writing to leave on the page: it asks to be embodied, spoken, and explored with mind, tongue and breath.
Anima Poetry Press Rain, paperback/marcus james
