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Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
| Author: | Sheree Renée Thomas |
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Aqueduct Press, 2016 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life evokes the realm of ancestral knowledge with a deep respect for the natural world, a love of language, and an invitation for survival, and asks: Who survives without being transformed? Beneath luminous layers of imagery and mythology, science and nature, fantasy and the recounting of history, is the grace and tenderness of a poet's heart, the unwavering gaze of an oracle's vision, and the dreamlike whimsy of a storyteller's mind. Hope, love, and hard truths spring from these pages of a writer whose imagination conjures an unforgettable journey. Readers enter these poems and stories the way some souls enter church, a quiet garden, or a stand of trees--for rest, for the blessing of silence and reverie, for beauty if not redemption.
Table of Contents:
- 1 - The Tongue We Dream In - poem
- 2 - What the Map Knows - poem
- 4 - Original Sin - poem
- 5 - Sleeping Under the Tree of Life - poem
- 6 - Ruins - poem
- 7 - Repast - poem
- 8 - Unmarked - poem
- 9 - Burial Ground - poem
- 10 - The Silent Ones - poem
- 11 - Mama River - poem
- 13 - Rootwork - poem
- 14 - Highly Favored - poem
- 15 - The Nightflies - (2015) - poem
- 17 - Fallen - (2006) - poem
- 19 - Kneeling - poem
- 20 - Dawning - poem
- 21 - A River Almanac - poem
- 22 - Hurricane - poem
- 23 - Visitation of the Oracle at McKain Street - (2015) - poem
- 25 - If There Is Darkness - poem
- 27 - Machu Picchu - (2000) - poem
- 28 - In the Crone's Herbarium - poem
- 29 - Terrarium - poem
- 30 - Confess - poem
- 31 - Urban Blight - poem
- 32 - Dead Ends & Corner Stores - poem
- 33 - Testimony - poem
- 36 - Reunion - poem
- 38 - Arachne Star - poem
- 40 - Arachne on the Rebound - poem
- 41 - Diary of a She-Creature, or The Little Death - poem
- 42 - The Silence Between Us - poem
- 43 - Arachne & Medusa Jump Athena - (2015) - poem
- 45 - This by My Hand - poem
- 47 - Lucy, Betsy, Anarcha - poem
- 49 - Sister Fates - poem
- 50 - Medusa Got Game - poem
- 52 - The Sun Burnt Up and Other Reasons to Riot - poem
- 53 - Church of the Saint of Dead End Streets - poem
- 54 - Ring Shout for Survivors - poem
- 57 - Return Song, or Why I Went South - poem
- 58 - On Entering William Edmondson's Sculpture Yard - (2006) - poem
- 59 - In the Negro Section of Nashville - (2006) - poem
- 60 - Revival: A Gathering of Mosses - poem
- 61 - How Everything Begins - poem
- 63 - East Is Genesis - poem
- 64 - Splendid Iridescence - poem
- 66 - What Demeter Knew - poem
- 67 - Black River Ritual - (2002) - poem
- 68 - Full Blown Magnolia - poem
- 69 - Treesong - (2016) - short story
- 72 - Origins of Southern Spirit Music - short story
- 77 - River, Clap Your Hands - (2015) - short story
- 88 - The Grassdreaming Tree - (2004) - short story
- 105 - Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight - short story
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