If you enjoy receiving daily poems from me… or listening to my podcast… if you’re into ancient history or the American Civil War… if you enjoy archaeology or religion or even short stories… you’ll probably be into at least one of my books. Give them a look, order a few, pass them around. There (might) be a new book of poems coming soon!
Bone Antler Stone (poetry)
Passing through more than thirty thousand years of history, the changing spiritual and material lives of the earliest Europeans are vividly imagined in more than sixty poems through their artwork, burials, and architecture, and their interaction with the landscape, the seasons, and one another.
“Our prehistory now has its poet laureate.” – Barry Cunliffe, Professor of European Archaeology, University of Oxford
To the House of the Sun (poetry)
To the House of the Sun, an epic poem in thirty-three books, is a panorama of America during the Civil War as experienced by an Irish immigrant: from Georgia through the Deep South, he meets escaped and freed slaves, and soldiers from the recent battles. In the North, he befriends a weary Walt Whitman before briefly joining the Union Army. After this, he walks West and becomes a kind of religious figure wandering, healing, and even raising the dead.
“To The House of the Sun is a literary phenomenon on a scale with the Iliad or the Odyssey.” – Midwest Book Review
Notes from the Grid (essays)
What if we rediscovered our own privacy, our own hidden life? What if we accepted our own complexity? What if we found ways to live in a difficult and uncertain world, instead of being overwhelmed by its imperfections?
First begun in 2006, Notes from the Grid has been following behind its author ever since, and has emerged as a kind of Tao Te Ching for our times.
The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old (short stories)
The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old is a collection of quiet and brutal jewels. Told in the words of an unnamed narrator, each story gives voice to the easily dismissed: the lonely high school student, the elderly widower, the pining woman in her twenties, and the worn-down mother in her mid-thirties, and many others. Each speaks from the center of an almost paralyzed intensity, desperately searching for articulation and belonging.
Hymns & Lamentations (prayer)
Hymns and Lamentations is a meditation on the realities of deep faith and great suffering. It takes its place in the long tradition of religious literature where a personal relationship with the divine is embraced and swum through, while the equally great reality of suffering and injustice questions the very nature of belief and of God. In Hymns and Lamentations, ecstasy and anguish answer one another.
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