Spangling Darkness - Softcover

Block, Raphael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0986060011 ISBN 13: 9780986060014

Verlag: Poetic Matrix Press, 2014

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Poetry. Music. "Raphael's voice is a tool for sanity and survival in a world where hazards keep appearing on our path... The poems in both Songs from a Small Universe and SPANGLING DARKNESS illuminate his love for life and engagement with the natural world and with the community. SPANGLING DARKNESS ignites the imagination for a new vision that allows the earth to mend. This is the gift of Raphael Block as a poet whose spirit resonates in our common humanity and binds us together."&;J. Glenn Evans, from the Foreword

"The poems in SPANGLING DARKNESS breathe with a remarkable sensory awareness that brings a reader as close as one can get to daily life. This is where Raphael Block begins to work magic as a poet. Once I feel so honestly and deeply near to what happens in this life, close to what I want so much and what I would rather escape, connections and mysteries come to meet me with a capacity to awaken within me a spiritual consciousness fallen asleep through lack of attention. It is as if these poems are companions that know both the corner store and that other world."&;John Fox, founder of The Institute for Poetic Medicine and author of Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem- making

"'Can you touch the point of stillness / just before birds take off?' the poet asks in 'Magic is Here,' one of the songs concluding SPANGLING DARKNESS, Raphael Block's second collection of poems. The sacred abides in that stillness, and each poem calls us to attention, that we may hear the rhyme of waves, witness the yeast- risen Christ, feel the burning sap of a fire-born seed, the life-force pulsing in the filaments of the invisible web that holds us, lovers and fools, if we're lucky. And we, the lucky readers, emerge from our daily subtractions 'hewed a little larger' by Block's poems, with their twin blessings of grace and wonder."&;Terry Ehret, Author of Lucky Break, and Poet Laureate of Sonoma County 2004-06

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Born on a kibbutz, Raphael Block spent his boyhood playing on the hills of Haifa. His family returned to London as he turned nine, where learning British English shaped his ear for sound. In 1993 he moved to Northern California with his American wife, Deborah Simon Block, and their three-year-old daughter, Theadora. After Deborah passed away from cancer in 2002, it became Raphael's privilege to raise their child. As a teacher, Raphael worked with children under five for many years in London's inner city. In California he taught all grade levels, including teaching Waldorf, and also worked with kids with disabilities. A Sufi meditation practice and two life-threatening illnesses, Crohn's and MDS, a form of leukemia, have played major roles in intensifying his appreciation and gratitude for the moments of each day.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Poetic Matrix Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0986060011
• ISBN 13: 9780986060014
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 100
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