Description
The creative spirit – it asks for a commitment, ruthless as any angel.
Gorgeous storms get stuck in your teeth. Words are flimsy nets.
But then Yeses come bubbling, Yeses arrive like worms dancing in dirt.
You remember you are no dead dust mote settled, you must under-take the ritual of foraging from the brambles of time the forbidden meter of your love, your elemental kick, soaring and sibylline, stirred up like a once-in-a-life-time comet, flashing in dark skies.
Then Yeses Come Bubbling explores the power and pleasure of creativity and imagination, embracing an uncompromising “Yes”. This “Yes” acts like an ecological process and pact, where the creative spirit urges a commitment and all that is misaligned falls away. The poems are wide-ranging, from a spider’s web as symbol of poetic weaving to the ocean’s relentless waves as metaphor for ongoing creative birth. From odes to Rilke, Oliver, mosquitoes, and makers who confront death, to the playful agency of art resisting control, poetry proves to be a living, breathing entity that reveals and conceals simultaneously.
Paperback ships November 5.
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My name is Ryan Van Lenning, Founder of Wild Nature Heart, and I am an earth-lover with a deep desire to be of service in the work of re-connection, re-membering, and re-inhabiting the animate web of life. I started Wild Nature Heart to support people at a crossroads to re-connect with the wisdom of both inner and outer wild nature, to live their soul callings into the world, and to assist in the work of repairing broken belonging. I am a threshold guide and barbarian poet of the Great Turning (author of several collections of poetry, including Re-Membering, From Inside These Wild Ones, One Bright and Real Caress, An Ambitious Silence, Trust the Ceremony, F*ck the Ceremony, and Trust the Ceremony, Then Yeses Come Bubbling, Within the Cave Something Pulses, Moon Has a Long Memory, Kiss Me A Huckleberry, and High-Cooing Through the Seasons: Haiku From the Forest). I am trained as a rite-of-passage/wilderness ceremony guide through the School of Lost Borders, certified as an Ecotherapist through The Earthbody Institute, where I teach the Level 1-3 ecotherapy courses, and am a Certified Wilderness First Responder through Foster Calm. Prior to moving to California 18 years ago, I taught Comparative Religion, Philosophy, and Environmental Ethics at Sinclair College in Ohio. I live among the forest and rivers in northern California, ancestral Wiyot and Yurok land. I like cinnamon ice cream, fantastic fungi, and river ottering.
Testimonials for previous collection Re-Membering:
“Bless Ryan Van Lenning for listening to the wild voices and bringing back the news for those who have lost their way. Bless him for reminding us of our original love affair with the earth and of what we know deep in our souls. His poems give wise counsel: let go of the debris, remember who you are, do not abandon your luminous thread.” —Lorraine Anderson, editor of Sisters of the Earth and Earth & Eros “Ryan’s poetry speaks deeply and clearly to the awakening to our true interconnected nature, which is the only way we can transform our world.” –Molly Young Brown, Author of Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects (co-authored with Joanna Macy), Editor of Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects
“Ryan’s poetry sprouts out of him from moist, fertile soil – painting a lush landscape of sensual and philosophical magic. His poems transport you to a way of living in relationship with the earth that is lovingly intimate. Ryan integrates body, spirit, and social commentary into a vision of how to live a nature-inspired life amidst noise and overrun technology. ” Ariana Candell, LMFT, Founder of The Earthbody Institute
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