{"product_id":"altarpieces-michael-d-okelly-9781462013401","title":"Altarpieces: Structures of Poetry and Spiritual Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Fireflies at dawn. . .\u003cbr\u003e Winged essences, charred bodies still on fire.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis evocative poetry-essay collection issues a call for a renewed embracement of the reader's own expressive \"self.\" We've each a persona to hear --- a voice to resonate through silences of night and the noises of everyday. Life is a mystery hard to crack. We bang it like a door and strum it like a lyre until it opens some new \"portal\" through which the voice can authentically sound-out the \"truths\" of being human. That's the happening of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Altarpieces have always been artistic creations to conceive life's \"sacred\" space. This book follows that tradition, if rather untraditionally. These pieces speak to \"hear\" life on one's own terms; from one's own altar and cathedral. This \"gathering\" created a poet-self identity --- called 'Apo'kstrophes'. The essays join with the poems to conceive poetry and the spiritual quest with a renewed existential-eco-romantic perspective; sounding that quest with both feet grounded on \"worldly other\" Planet Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe challenge to grasp life at the core is a wrenching-wrestling match with the \"Other,\" that ever-present dimension of \"poetry\" on life's path. --- Joining philosophical play with the authenticity of word-pieces as \"true orients,\" O'Kelly's book, with many poets helping along the way, has taken up that challenge with unflinching creativity. Want a spiritual adventure? Fly! Take the ride!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Oh, the ride! Fins spurred in shivers of hide.\u003cbr\u003e Life's dearness reined in the roll of the tide.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael D. O'Kelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1462013406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781462013401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Michael D. O'Kelly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458486874367,"sku":"9781462013401","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6a58f7fe-5092-45b1-8bec-0ec9b034c68f.jpg?v=1777404747","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/altarpieces-michael-d-okelly-9781462013401","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}