Product Description
by Diane Kistner (Editor), Martin Willitts Jr (Author)
This is a collection of meditative spiritual poems. Martin Willitts, Jr. lives by the simple Quaker principle of "God is everywhere, in everyone," seeing both the good and bad, but also the awe of waking every day. He turns inwards with silent meditation and outward with his own version of psalms. He knows the small objects are just as important as the large for our own survival. This book will be appreciated by people who like poets such as Rumi, Hafez, Thomas Merton, Emily Dickinson, Lalla, Rilke, Dogen, Yeats, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Blake, Kabir, Mirabai, St. Augustine, William Stafford, George Herbert, Meister Eckhart, Li Po, St. Teresa of Avila, Simone Weil, St. Francis of Assisi, Kahlil Gibran, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Thomas Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, and D. H. Lawrence.
Author Biography
Martin Willitts, Jr., is a retired librarian. He was a field medic for the American Friends Service Committee (Quaker), a former Jazz musician, and has built over 100 houses for Habitat for Humanity. He won the 2014 Broadsided Award; the 2014 Dylan Thomas International Poetry Contest; and Editor's Choice in Rattle's Ekphrastic Challenge (June 2015). He has more than 20 chapbooks to his credit plus 11 full-length collections, including the National Ecological Award winner Searching for What You Cannot See (Hiraeth Press, 2013).
