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Dew From the Womb of the Morning

by Barbara Markwood

135 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-1469; ISBN 1-4120-1100-0; US$16.00, C$19.99, EUR12.99, £8.99

Enter your own inner hollowed ground to find celestial music and where it originates and leads.

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About the Book This three part book looks into the vanishing threshold of nature and spirit; body-mind; body-soul, spirit. The title is from Psalm 110 verse 3 in the Book of Common Prayer which indicates a fresh quality of pure beauty; of a state of blessedness, describing, for the author, a love relationship. Section One is exultation. Two is word snapshots of pain. Section Three celebrates our natural world in its varied costumes, traits, possible purposes and origins. This collection is a dance through perceptions of our world. The author invites dancers to listen with heart.

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About the Author Her first 20 years in a rural paradise prepared the author to listen to the hum of nature as well as search for its secrets. Solitary hours in woods, hills, fields and river lent a metaphysical influence reinforced by spiritual grounding in a large family of "prayer warriors." Family educated young ones through weekly church attendance, daily bible reading and weeks of summer camp. Music learned, performed and enjoyed still inspires the writer to ponder the invisible. "Writing serves as a management tool for dealing with paradox, a form in some ways similar to myth, which many agree can carry truth that is too large to fit into mental reasoning alone. Whereas the mind struggles with yes and no, the soul entertains both. Writing helps the author deal with intense emotion that serves as a mind-soul bridge. It also functions as a method for problem solving. One lifelong question asks where music goes; where history is, where space is going and many more. Pursuing these questions shapes my life." Dew From the Womb of the Morning is proposing a way of life based on hope made possible through divine grace. The author lives and works in Washington, DC near some of her cherished children and grandchildren.

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Reviews and Sample Excerpts

"...a book of stunning and beautiful poetry. I read many of the poems... and felt myself transported to other worlds. The mind is a glorious thing. [The author has] truly found a connection between mind, body and spirit by writing such incredible thoughts and feelings in your poetry. Some of the poems, I was able to connect with immediately and others I will read and re- read. Thank you for this wonderful gift..."

Claudia Stein, M.A. Applied Linguistics, educator

"Dew from the Womb of the Morning is a deceptively simple book of poems. Each page, indeed each word invites the reader to pause and ponder, to sink deeper into the images. Barbara Markwood's poems are invitations to partake of her rich imagination. Her vision of the ordinary--and the extraordinary that lies hidden there beneath the surface --is remarkable."

Margaret Guenther, Associate Rector, St. Columba's, Washington, DC

"Barbara Markwood's Dew From the Womb of the Morning represents a beautiful collection of poems that, to me, represents a modern version very much in line with the tradiition of spiritual poetry--poems of a pilgrim.

The ever-present struggle with light and dark greets the reader in the beginning and doesn't let up. But always, even at its darkest, there is the urge to go on and the implicit courage to go on. And it does get dark in the "Dew From the Womb of the Morning", just as one might expect as those first moments of light transform night to day. It was a pleasure to share in Barbara Markwood's journey and, I dare say, it is a collection of poems that any seeker of the light in these days of transformation...would be well advised to examine...."

Allen Fertziger teaches a course called, "Thanatos, the Many Meanings of Death" in the Honors Program of the University of Maryland. He is a neurophysiologist by training and currently counsels and teaches about Death and Dying, and the inevitability of suffering....

Excerpts from the Book

Poetry is observation that seeks relationships: pictures with words, things with things and things with people, people with reality beyond subjectivism. This book of poems begins with experiential inspiration, a certain kind of inner hearing, on to notice a world in pain and then to resolution of feeling helped by noticing nature and the joy it brings to the observer. The intent is to weave sections into one principle, relating to the word symbols to ask the readers to notice their own pictures that the words suggest.

Section I	Singing Through the River of Life, Eos
Section II	Love Anguishes
Section III	Garment of Love

Excerpted from Section I is the poem Promise

Opening mind's
Doorway with a
Word
An economic series
Introducing
Relationship
Momentarily
That is the goal
The rest is up
To you

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Catalogue Information

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