Press Release
~ The Angel and the Heretic ~
Author's Photograph by Christine Tenenholtz.
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First poetry collection crosses a
threshold of spiritual insight, quivering stillness, and divine dance in a
contemplative celebration of new verse. Houston:
Press Release –– For immediate release July 12, 2015. Saint
Julian Press proudly presents a new collection of poems by poet Britt Posmer that is now available through fine book distributors
and retailers. "Britt Posmer has obviously crossed
the threshold into the state of non abiding. In a clear, liberated and
liberating, unconventional voice, she gives us “the raw seduction of real
love.” She has traversed the underbelly of life and knows the dense and dark
caverns of the human condition. Like every true shaman, she has returned to
share her discoveries. Britt pulls words like arrows from an invisible quiver,
while pirouetting beneath a moonless sky. Yes, a luminous quiver hewn during
hours and hours-becoming-years of internal
exploration. Britt is Artemis, the “huntress pregnant with god,” who expresses
the direct approach interwoven with unapologetic, Deep
feminine, primordial wisdom!" ~ Rashani Réa, artist, activist, intimist;
author of Beyond Brokenness, Shimmering Birthless
and Moonlight on a Night Moth's Wing. "The poet in crisis (our crisis) can, like Basho and the Zen
masters, remove the subject, the "I," from the naked suchness of the
dusty crumb. Then the poem is a verbal still-life,
capturing a single moment unoccupied by the human self: the essence of Haiku.
Or the poet can retain the "I" and fill it with tears, with the pangs
of all her unborn children, with every stifled uncertain abused and human
voice, even the voice of the homeless angel. Britt Posmer has chosen to retain the
"I," but an empty "i" (we must
think of Keat's "negative capability") who
takes into its vacuous orb the bodies of hurt children, fallen stars, muted
women, mothers, half burnt seeds, mouths bursting in silent zeros of pain. She
finds a single voice for the animal and angel in us, giving her poems the irony
of wholeness, the grief that germinates eternal beauty. Britt is a poet of revelation, exposing a secret alchemy by which the
touch of human bodies is transmuted to the light by which God sees. Read these
poems again and again. They will never be old." ~Alfred K. LaMotte, whose books include Wounded
Bud: Poems for Meditation and Shimmering Birthless:
a Confluence of Verse and Image with Rashani Réa. |
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“In conversations with angels we find a shared angst, a beautiful
blending of a number of traditions; koans and angels
co-exist. On the page many worlds collide. This first book of poetry by Britt Posmer is a call to compassion not only for ourselves, our bodies
and for each other but also those considered divine; the ones we turn to. “the ones who cry don’t disappear We are taken on a journey of shared grief, “behind our ears we are all
tucking cemetery flowers.” An exploration of the places where angels play cards
and our “body is the path of homecoming”. ~ Jónína Kirton,
author of page as bone ~ ink as blood. "Britt’s poems dance with elegance and great courage and they
speak to my heart directly and fearlessly. They are not mental exercise. They
are rather deep pointers to what cannot be said with words. Their simplicity
and clarity is like music we hear when we turn our face towards the ocean of
life." ~Guthema Roba
– Author of Wake Up and Roar – Poetry for Meditation and
Awakening Available through ~ Ingram Content Group ~ Amazon ~ Barnes & Noble ~ Fine Book Distributors & Retailers ~ $14.00 Suggested Retail Price |
Cover Art: The Angel and the Heretic, 24 x 20, Acrylic On Canvas, by Britt Posmer.
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