MAMMOTH PUBLISHES 2023 CHAPBOOKS: JERAHMY PARSONS’ ARTICULATIONS and DANCE: INDIGENOUS NATIONS POETS

ARTICULATIONS: POEMS by Jerahmy Parsons of Sonoma County, California. ISBN 978-1-939301-60-4, $12.00 (post paid, domestic only) 28-page staple-bound chapbook. PayPal Order (1 copy); for multiple copies, international postage, and discount, email MammothPubs [at] Gmail for information. See the page Jerahmy Parsons for more information.

~DANCE: Indigenous Nations Poets~

DANCE: Indigenous Nations Poets Write from the Library of Congress ISBN 978-1-939301-61-1     $12.00     24-page staple-bound chapbook. PAYPAL ORDER NOW (1 copy) For multiple copies and discount, email MammothPubs [at] gmail for information.

POETS: Kenzie AllenTacey M. AtsittyKimberly BlaeserAnthony CeballosMary ChristensenKinsale DrakeHalee KirkwoodDenise LowArielle Taitano LoweDeborah MirandaElise PaschenRena PriestHa’åni Lucia Falo San NicolasEdgar SilexAnnie Westrup

“In April of 2022, Indigenous Nations Poets hosted 17 Indigenous poets as fellows for a gathering with distinguished Indigenous faculty, In-Na-Po leaders, and United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo at the Library of Congress (LOC). The week’s events included workshops, craft talks, an introduction to the collections of the LOC and the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), and readings by faculty and fellows. Throughout the retreat, we embraced Indigenous values and aesthetics and encouraged participants to use Indigenous languages” (In-Na-Po website).

     This publication is a sharing of creative responses to the 2022 LOC retreat. The co-editors E.G. Silex and Denise Low were faculty members for the retreat. They were honored to collect writings by retreat participants that were inspired by the week’s activities. These poems have a range of voices. Their clarity and power weave through the pages, as well as common themes: dance, personal and community survivance, and traditions that sustain nations and individuals through adversities. The poems also show the spirituality that is as essential to Native peoples as food.

Mammoth publishes Wichita native JIM GILKESON’S memoir THREE LOST WORLDS: A Memoir of Life Among Mystics, Healers, and Life-Artists

$19.95, paper, ISBN: 978-1-939301-62-8, 300 pages)

JIM GILKESON is the author of A Pilgrim in Your Body: Energy Healing and Spiritual Process and Energy Healing: A Pathway to Inner Growth. In his twenties and early thirties, Gilkeson was a member of an esoteric spiritual order. After leaving the order, he learned energy healing in Europe, where he lived for eleven years. He was a member of the healing staff at Harbin Hot Springs in Northern California from 2001 until that retreat community was destroyed in the 2015 Valley Fire. www.jimgilkeson.com   

ORDER HERE. For media inquiries and review copies, please contact Jim Gilkeson Email: jim@jimgilkeson.com (707) 696-2768

Explore this insider’s account of life in an order of modern mystics, an apprenticeship in energetic healing, and life in a clothing-optional retreat center in Northern California.

This spiritual coming-of-age memoir takes the reader on a storyteller’s journey into three tiny, experimental subcultures in the U.S. and Northern Europe. In a series of short interlocking vignettes, spanning the years from 1949 to 2015, Gilkeson traces his unlikely path from a conventional upbringing in the Midwest, down the psychedelic rabbit hole, and into the ferment of the late 1960s. He emerges as a brother in an order of modern mystics and later as a practitioner and teacher of energy healing at a clothing-optional retreat center. Three Lost Worlds is a reflection on a pivotal period in American spiritual history, the heartfelt journey of a modern seeker caught up in the protracted spiritual walkabout of a generation.

 “A lived-in perspective on the creative, cultural ferment of the 70’s. Three Lost Worlds is like visiting an amusement park of the mind.” ~Diane Lonsdale Haynes

Publication date Nov 1, 2022)

MAMMOTH PUBLISHES KIM SHUCK’S WHOSE WATER, chapbook, $10 ISBN 978-1-939301-63-5  

For preorders, contact mammothpubs@gmail.com, $10 plus tax and shipping OR PayPal Link

Kim Shuck, Poet Laureate of San Francisco, writes a stunning long poem about her journey across the Unites States, what becomes a personal migration along its waterways. She names and transforms history, politics, nature’s beings, and her own ties to Cherokee Nation, of which she is an enrolled member. She notices “Selu” (corn in Cherokee), orchards, “dead gas stations,” and “ravens in parking lots.” In the flow of scenes Shuck articulates an identity, “Americans are defined/by crossing water/Atlantic, Mississippi, Rio Grande, Pacific.”

See details on the Kim Shuck page

 

 

LINDA RODRIGUEZ, author of award-winning poetry and prose, publishes Dark Sister:Poems with Mammoth! 88 pages $16.00 ISBN Perfect-bound paper 978-1-939301-66-6           Order  for online discount! $12.00 (plus shipping ) Kansas residents: Click this for tax Others  click here!   

Mail order 610 Alta Vista Dr., Healdsburg CA 95448, $15 postpaid

“I want to say so much about Rodriguez’s poetic gifts. What talent! The most accomplished poet of our generation. A poetic voice for our time.” ~Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Ultima and Albuquerque

For description of Dark Sister, click this link.

Recent publication (see details here by clicking on this label), Moods in Poetry: A Guidebook for Writers,  email mammothpubs@gmail; snail mail 1916 Stratford Rd., Lawrence, KS 66044 Online special, order for $15, postpaid btn_buynow_LG PayPal click here

 

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