Beschreibung:
Jane Galer holds a BA in philosophy, an MA in material culture studies, anda certificate in museum curation for archaeologists. She trained as a shaman in thelineage of the Q'ero of Peru for four years. Her work includes Becoming Hummingbird: Charting Your Life Journey the Shaman's Way, The Navigator's Wife, a novel, and she is currently atwork on The Painted People: the Celtic Shaman's Lineage. She is an award winning poet and the author of three books of poetry. Jane lives in northern California with her husband, Gene, and border collies, Tweed and Cavendish.
In this fourth poetry collection, Galer has assembled new poems with a slight twist. The poems themselves highlight her animist spiritual realm, and the global threat of climate change, common themes in her work for decades. But, in addition, each poem is accompanied by an annotation, a small memoir of the various experiences and thoughts that made her stop in an ordinary day and bring forth a new poem. Readers of poetry will enjoy seeing the poet's process, and readers who might ordinarily pass on reading poetry but who enjoy reading memoir will appreciate this glimpse into the writing of a poem.