Nothing But Light: Poems

Nothing But Light explores the sacred feminine through the poets' shared visits to places and people of spiritual revelation-a mosque, a temple, a shaman, a tree. Its poems form a guidebook to expansive and numinous spaces of body and spirit. "This book is a song: a rolling, rollicking dialogue with emerging selves as they take their place in a textured female lineage, confirming a "world-blown pregnancy." In poems that move from the ecological to the erotic, Leahy and Schwartz re-wild the feminine, invoking the divine while grounding themselves firmly in the work of the body: "what if goddess is the in. The way through. // Relationship itself." As the book builds a kind of generative path towards grace, where mythic ancestors (Gaia) converse with modern counterparts (Virginia Woolf), what's exposed are deeply moving meditations-on cancer survival, on motherhood and the return of the prodigal daughter, on the regenerative properties of joy-guiding the reader to profound and unexpected places." - Joe Pan, author of Autobiomythography and Hi c cu ps

Author: Barbara Schwartz|Krista J. H. Leahy

Publisher: Circling Rivers

Publication Date: Jun 21, 2022

Number of Pages: 118 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1939530237

ISBN-13: 9781939530233