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“McDowell often ends his poems with a chal­lenge to “Jim,” a ques­tion usu­ally asking him to make sense of his life. . . . 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. You will dis­cover, along with him, the almost seam­less way the ordi­nary and non-​​ordinary real­i­ties of our soul’s deep dreaming sup­port and create a multi-​​layered world to live in. It is a world that intrigues us while reading the poem and that lingers long after we lay the poem aside.” —Tom Cowan, from the fore­word of Night, Mystery & Light More Info »

“Shimmering up and down the orig­inal Tree, nature, Western Solstice is a gnosis that explores intense sen­sual vivid­ness, being, and the flesh through the ter­res­trial details of a large and gen­erous human empathy. Political, fierce, and tender, Leonore Wilson’s poems take ‘cadence inside her­self,’ and ‘anti-​​matter and matter fla­gel­lating, pal­pi­tating’ into mys­teries of life and death, female pres­ence, the planet, gender, and music. Her process is trans­for­ma­tive; the reader’s expe­ri­ence is deli­cious­ness, Gaia, sweet sub­stance, ’Eden to the wasp, shelter and elixir’: like eating ‘Billy Holliday’s lim­bering voice’; like ’con­sum­mating fallen dark­ness and dif­fused and fas­ci­nating’; or, like ‘being fed clear to the core, and dis­tance bent backwards’ — chords of an embodying, gor­geous, and inti­mate art.” —‘Annah Sobelman, author of In the Bee Latitudes and The Tulip Sacrament More Info »

The poems in this book are an attempt to speak in a common tongue with moun­tains, rivers, and forests. Too often poetry is thought of as the domain of human cre­ativity with its source in the depths of the imag­i­na­tion. We use it to speak of the world, but not to the non-​​human world — let alone with it. The poems in Estuaries sug­gest that speech and poetry are fun­da­men­tally rooted in the ecosystem — the detritus of fallen leaves, the cur­va­ture of a river bend, and the sound of rain on a heron’s wings. All of this might be regarded as the speech of the Earth. When we speak or write poetry that engages these voices we become par­tic­i­pant in the pat­terns of the water­shed. More Info »

“This is poetry for the soul…It took me down into my depths, beck­oning me to dig fear­lessly into my com­posted dreams, com­mit­ments, and deep yearn­ings. I resisted the urge to read the entire col­lec­tion in one sit­ting, instead rumi­nating over each poem as one might a grand painting or a sacred gospel.” —Christopher Uhl, PhD, author of Developing Ecological Consciousness: Path to a Sustainable World More Info »

“Richards writes skill­fully and soul­fully about the most pressing issues of our times, and the deeper crisis out of which they have emerged. Drawing from a vast trove of knowl­edge about the world’s reli­gious, mys­tical, and philo­soph­ical tra­di­tions, he extracts the most valu­able gems, pol­ishes them with the rev­o­lu­tionary insights of modern sci­ence, and forges a radiant, new cos­mos­ophy — a uni­versal wisdom that honors the wisdom of the uni­verse. The beauty of this mythos is that it, like the cosmos, is not static but dynamic, inviting our active par­tic­i­pa­tion and imag­i­na­tive engage­ment. This book suc­ceeds in instilling rev­er­ence for a living uni­verse and hope for a dying planet. May Cosmosophia blossom and flourish in the hearts of all beings!” —Darrin Drda, author of The Four Global Truths More Info »

“In the lin­eage of Oliver, Stegner, Lopez and Thoreau, Jamie K. Reaser’s exquisite year-​​long record, Huntley Meadows, guides us as readers to a sacred return. In this living homage to fur, feather, scale and root we remember the deep love pos­sible for a place through the sea­sons. The spirit of a shaman-​​poet and the keen eye of a nat­u­ralist come together in these pages. The end result is a col­lec­tion of verses wherein a spe­cial place is given a voice. Listening to such voices offers all of us res­ur­rec­tion and renewal.” —Frank Owen, cre­ator of the online poetry expe­ri­ence, nekyia.poetry More Info »

“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. With The Salmon in the Spring, Jason Kirkey has boldly carved out his place in this exciting work with his orig­inal inter­pre­ta­tions of the con­cepts and sto­ries of ancient Ireland . . . Kirkey’s vision speaks directly to our present eco­log­ical chal­lenge. Rejecting those nature-​​denying forms of spir­i­tu­ality that have been used too easily to jus­tify our domes­ti­ca­tion of the planet, The Salmon in the Spring announces its thrilling spir­i­tual foun­da­tion: “Our wild nature is our soul.” —Brian Swimme, California Institute of Integral Studies More Info »

Part of the Courting the Wild Anthology Series. “Ever since that infa­mous episode in The Garden of Eden, we humans have des­per­ately needed to heal our rela­tion­ship with the scaly and slip­pery ones. Unfairly dis­en­fran­chised from our good­will for thou­sands of years, “herps” deserve to be loved for what they really are: fas­ci­nating, life-​​giving, and the only crea­tures with per­petual smiles.” — Susan Chernak McElroy, author of Animals as Teachers and Healers More Info »

Part of the Courting the Wild Anthology Series. “Do you remember the first time you feel in love? Within these pages you will find love sto­ries, rap­turous love affairs with the land, shame­less seduc­tions, betrothals, vows exchanged, mar­riages of the soul, heartaches, part­ings, heal­ings, and renewals. The authors are the courters and the courted . . . Their land­scape para­mours embrace them and they grow forth from within.” More Info »

The Ballad of the Sea-​​Sweet Moon tells the story of a mythic encounter with the divine fem­i­nine and how it shakes and shapes the life of one man, set­ting his heart ablaze. In their poetic and tantric love-​​making, cities and struc­tures of con­scious­ness will fall, ulti­mately making room for a new way of being in the world. This col­lec­tion also includes a newly edited ver­sion of the chap­book September Seeing and sev­eral never before seen poems. More Info »