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Reservoir (Paperback)

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This volume of mostly lyrical poetry calls forth the sacred in every day, the ordinary and commonplace; the quotidian. The poems reflect a deeply personal, contemplative inquiry regarding connections to nature, landscape, family, home, church life, and spiritual practice. Included in this volume is a section of haiku: as witness to transformation in and around a reservoir. The poems embrace the mysteries of the Divine and the tapestries of ancient texts, exploring boundaries between the self and the collective. The poems are rooted in and illuminate the Feminine Divine. Love, heartache, commitment, and loss conjoin with renewal, resiliency, grace, and attentiveness. These poems embrace difficult questions; a lived life presents and leaves the reader considering his or her own revelations and perhaps, resolutions.

About the Author


Elaine Fletcher Chapman (Elaine Walters McFerron) recently located to the Aptos Hills of Larkin Valley, California from Virginia. She writes poetry and nonfiction. Her poetry collections include, Reservoir (Saint Julian Press), Hunger for Salt (Saint Julian Press) and Double Solitude (Green River Press). She has numerous publications in many journals. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College, Bennington Vermont where she was on staff for 18 years. She taught Literature at Old Dominion University, founded The Writer’s Studio, maintains a private practice as a psychotherapist and is a Certified iRest Yoga Nidra Teacher. She offers ongoing classes: On Keeping a Journal and Yoga Nidra & Sacred Writing. More information can be found on her website: www.elainefletcherchapman.com

Praise For…


”Elaine Fletcher Chapman’s second full-length collection provides the reader the meditative balm of walking a labyrinth. Her poems take us with the speaker on a quest inward, where circumstances of a chaotic world are invited into a space made clear by ever-circling proximity to an elemental source. Nature communes with uncertainty and grief making all things sacred.” Tracy Rice Weber, author of All That Keeps Me

”To read these poems in small batches, with time to absorb their languages and experience their sense of both urgency and connection, is to be taken outside of ordinary time. Yet the quotidian of red magnolia seeds, elms in the backyard, the dogwood in bloom, and the reservoir itself, work as grounding details suffusing the poems with thresholds and windows. The poems do not explain the path, rather, they strew the path with obstacles of delay and isolation that have their place on the journey. A lost line of sight of the ocean is a lost sense of location that needs attention. Distance from loved ones, practicing setting boundaries—the abstractions of the psyche, all play out against the urgency to both move and stay still.” From Loch Raven Review written by Miriam O’Neal author of We Start With What Is Given, the Body Dialogues and the Half-Said Things

”Through Elaine Fletcher Chapman’s voice in her volume of poetry RESERVOIR, I have accessed the entire sacred text of The Radiance Sutra’s (Lorin Roche). I am completely moved by her poetry as focused on the Arts in connection to faith, using exact right expressions and rich phrases for the moment in a recent Training of Trainers.” Elsa Bakkum, M.Div, Spiritual Director and Education for Ministry, Associate Director of Training, The School of Theology, University of the South, Sewanee, TN.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781733023351
ISBN-10: 1733023356
Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc.
Publication Date: June 1st, 2021
Pages: 100
Language: English