More information and the list of poems:
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Meditations on Divine Names
An Anthology of Contemporary Spiritual Poetry Edited by Maja Trochimczyk, Ph.D. BUY IT NOW: ISBN 978-0-9819693-8-1, paperback, 216 pp. $21.00 (2012) ISBN 978-1-945938-16-0, E-book in E-Pub format, $10.00 (2018) This anthology of poetry on religious and spiritual themes, includes 140 poems by 64 poets. The content of Meditations on Divine Names is organized into the following ten sections: Naming, Names, Earth, Water, Air, Fire, He, She, Being, Loving. This framework avoids the conventional divisions into Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, or Light and Darkness. It also goes beyond religious denominations, or specific divine names, such as Yahweh, Allah, and Christ, or Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Similarly, there is no separation of poems into different religious denominations and spiritual traditions. Different themes are intertwined in each poem and their order follows thematic threads within each section - bread, sunlight, birth, mothering... Poets belong to different religious denominations or spiritual traditions. They see the manifestations of the Divine in many aspects of life - personal prayer, religious ceremonies, singing of psalms, family relationships, nature, sun, sky, bread making, loving, and love making. They admire the colors of the sky and the liquid nourishment of water. The clarity of mountain air and the gentleness of human touch. From the four letters of YHWH to Lada or Pele, the anthology catalogs some unusual divine names. Poets reflect on the act of naming, the facts of knowing and unknowing of our God(s). They give testimony to their hopes and beliefs, and share what they find beautiful and inspirational, or, sometimes, disturbing. There is darkness around and death, but the poets look for ways to ascend above, to illumination. |
Maja Trochimczyk Ph.D. is a Polish American poet, music historian, photographer and non-profit director. A former Poet Laureate of Sunland Tujunga, she wrote/edited six books on music (including Frederic Chopin: A Research and Information Guide, Routledge, 2015), and published six volumes of poetry - Rose Always (2011), Miriam’s Iris (2008) , Slicing the Bread (2014), Into Light (2016) and anthologies Chopin with Cherries (2010) and Meditations on Divine Names (2012). Hundreds of her poems and articles appeared online and in print journals. She serves as Board Secretary of the Polish American Historical Association, and is an author of hundreds of articles, book reviews and poems published in Poland, Canada, U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Sweden, and other countries. As President of Moonrise Press, she is also a publisher of books on poetry, music and Polish culture. She received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and honors from the Polish government (medal for the promotion of Polish culture), PAHA, and others. http://www.trochimczyk.net/index.html
List of Poets |
The following poets are represented: MJ Adams, Nicholas Alexander, Catherine Auman, Jon B., Marcielle Brandler, Sharon Chmielarz, Joe Decenzo, Carol Dorf, Kate Hallett Dayton, Carl Estrin, Amy Falvey, Elsa S. Frausto, Bill Gillard, Michael Graber, John Guzlowski, Peter J. Harris, Carl Hitchens, Marlene Hitt, G. Bennett Humphrey, Oriana Ivy, Mitch James, Roy Jacobstein, Lois P. Jones, James Levin, Terranda King, Alexis Krasilovsky, Leonard Kress, Sharmagne Leland-St.John, Rick Lupert, Radomir Voytech Luza, Czeslaw Milosz, Rajiv Mohabir, Geoshino Ollscia, Shirley Dunn Perry, Nils Peterson, Lenora Popa, Kate Robinson, Susan Rogers, Mary Kay Rummel, Nicholas Samaras, Peter Shefler, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, Dorothy Skiles, Lee M. Sloca, J.D. Smith, Barry Spacks, Odarka Polanskyj Stockert, Charles A. Swanson, Taoli-Ambika Talwar, Judith Terzi, Maja Trochimczyk, Ann Tweedy, Davi Walders, Martin Willitts Jr., and Kathabela Wilson. Visit the Moonrise Press blog for more information and a list of poems.
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Prof. Kozaczka About This Book |
"Meditations on Divine Names offers rich poetic material selected and collected with great sensitivity, by an editor for whom religious belief was not a given, but rather the result of conscious search. Its 140 poems by sixty-four authors represent a variety of religious faiths. The title of this anthology points to some crucial concepts. In several world mythologies, the act of naming, the act that involves language, takes on the power of creation. One can certainly find parallels here with poetic acts of creation. Likewise, many of the poems chosen by Trochimczyk represent thoughtful meditations, prayers or thoughtful incantations that allow the reader a total immersion in the spiritual and move the reader to the emotional response to, and relationship with, the divine." ~ Prof. Grazyna Kozaczka, Polish Review 58/4 (2013): 109.
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