New poetry collection touches on the divine and sacred in literature.
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Houston:
Press Release - For immediate release November 17, 2014. Saint
Julian Press proudly presents a new collection of poems by poet and artist
Leila A. Fortier that is now available through fine book distributors and
retailers.
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Numinous by Leila A. Fortier In the great
tradition of Rabiʿa al-Basri, who as an eight century Sufi mystic and poet is regarded as
the first female saint of Sufism, setting forth the doctrine of Divine Love,
the poems in Numinous seem to arise
from the deepest memories of humankind and a communion with the spirit. They are an invocation of that spirit.
Perceiving the spiritual quality of these poems authors Melissa Studdard and
Diane Frank both observe. |
“Leila Fortier is not just a woman. She is the living embodiment of
love, and her Numinous is what happens when love exhales: shimmering, luminous poetry and
art. Following the ecstatic tradition of the divine, mystic poet, Fortier
offers an encompassing interplay of seeming opposites—pages overflow with
emptiness, words emanate musical silence, and we are led deeper and deeper into
the lucidity of dream. Here is a collection that illustrates, page after page,
what we need to remember every day, that one simple truth: All is sacred.”
~ Melissa Studdard, Author
of I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
“Leila Fortier’s Numinous is a sizzler, full of visionary beauty. With elegantly crafted
language, her poems are “Quietly burning.” She invites her readers to enter a
world lit with passion… “breathing your silent kiss /
Where my eternity / Reigns.” Her poems are informed by a timelessness where,
“Words have become silence and the spaces have / Become our words” –
inviting readers to remember the source of oceans, sun, snow leopards, rain,
all living things, and the whisperings of the soul. Leila’s poems remind us to
wake up and feel the beauty of the world, “Stars spilled across the / Oil of
the night.” Her poems are written in the voice of the Sacred Feminine, sacred
as the womb, a prayer, “Where our only /Separation / Is
time / Itself.” This is a book to treasure over the years.”
~ Diane
Frank, Author of Yoga of the Impossible
Leila A. Fortier
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Leila A.
Fortier is a poet, artist, and photographer currently residing in Okinawa,
Japan. Her own multi-medium forms of art, photography, and spoken performance
often accompany her sculpted poetry. Selections of her work have been
translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, and German in a growing
effort to foster cultural diversity and understanding through the voice of
poetry. A listing of her published works can be found at: www.leilafortier.com. Leila A. Fortier |
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Poems from Numinous
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