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Thursday, December 25, 2008

The Journey Home

CHRISTMAS, 2008

I stand before the sea
Where fish, pregnant with eggs,
Spawn a new epoch.

My breast presses on the ground of kings
Bringing
Strength to my knees

I stand upon the mesa,
Body sweating the salt of queens
I am ready

My memories spring
From desert stones
Singing

Review

THE SOUND
OF LONELINESS
Poem Fragments

What a diaphanous and yet keenly visceral work of art you've created with the felt clarity of these lyrics! Between sadness and desire, this poetic sequence makes wholeness of fragmentation. Such a strong juxtaposition: the
fragments of an ancient poet - and the deconstruction of a life in the present. You put the trauma of today in mythic perspective. With The Sound of Loneliness, you listen for life's meaning. Truth answers in sorrow - beauty
with wonder.

A.A. Attanasio, award winning novelist

SOUND OF LONELINESS

TITLES

It is september, 2001 in the French countryside. The blind herdsman Josef has just passed away. From his strange landing place, he peers down to the Pyrenean valley below. We meet the friends and neighbors he has left behind, including the foreigner Helene. Through visions and dreams Josef begins to communicate with Helene. They hold the ancient information that will eventually help them remember where they came from, who they are, and how they can return home. Their story takes us to the same valley 2000 years ago, to prehistoric Ireland and from France in the 1930’s to present day. Marianne Press, 350 pages. 2007

Response: PEASANTS AND POETS

Pamela Preston’s haunting passages and ancient heartbeat rhythms tune our sensitivities to subtle mythical themes, locating those hidden spaces in the world and in our hearts to which we have lost the way. The intense authenticity of this poet’s noel requires the suspension of an ordinary sense of reality, a giving over to the music of remembering. It nourishes our ability to live in the world of today, while sensitive to the earths movements and the movements of time. Ms Preston has had the courage to paint her own artistic vision, and we are the beneficiaries.
Ann Yeomans, Archetypal Therapist

“I think this is beautifully written. I like the way you reach into the characters’ heads and hearts and there is a strong sense of portent throughout these pages. I am extremely impressed with what you’ve accomplished. Congratulations. You’ve written a meaningful novel.”
Lou Aronica, former publisher of Berkley Books

"I declare that Peasants and Poets magically fuses bucolic history and futuristic presence, so that through the narrative force of your story the reader slips away on four dimensions. Added to up-down, left-right, forward backward, topologists define the orthogonal direction of a fourth spatial dimension as spassitude-spissitude, or upsilon-delta. You move us with deft spassitude into the aboriginal and then with lyric spissitude we're coping with avian flu! It's an outstanding work of art. The more I live with it, the better I appreciate your artistry and the weight of history and problematical humanity you had to shoulder to carry this off. Brava!”
AA Attanasio, celebrated science-fiction novelist

RESPONSE: LA CHANSON

I am profoundly moved by your book. You have dropped into your very depths and allowed its rhythms to dance on the pages. Your images are vital, transforming, into the body from the body.
Marion Woodman , Author of CONSCIOUS FEMININITY

Pamela Preston is a gifted and visionary writer, able to find poetic language for the depths of the feminine soul. The Chanson is a marriage of myth and art, an epic journey of transformation, full of beauty, wisdom and grace."
Camille Maurine, Author of MEDITATION SECRETS FOR WOMEN

Truth is so much stranger than fiction. That it may be told at all is the sublime act of the poet, all too rare and in dire need of readers as bold. This is such a book. Pursue it as would your own truth, with great regard.
Peter Bradburn, Author of "Mercurius" and "Imago."

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