
Now is the Hour of Her Return
Poems in Praise of the Divine Mother Kali
Clark Strand(Author)
Monkfish Book Publishing Company
Published on 3. November 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
102 pages
978-1-948626-74-3 (ISBN)
Description
"In the early hours of June 16, 2011, Clark Strand witnessed a startling apparition of the Divine Feminine in the form of a young woman with an X of black electrical tape over Her mouth. Strand removed the tape, and She began to speak of a coming age of chaos and collapse in which the world of humankind would be severely chastened so that Her world-the world of Nature-could be renewed. Overwhelmed by the presence of One so fully Other, Strand found that love was the only language that would suffice. Drawing inspiration from Song of Songs and the Bengali mystics Ramprasad and Sri Ramakrishna, he began a series of poems to Ma Kali, the Dark Goddess of India, the words to which often came from the Great Mother Herself"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Rhinebeck, NY
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
b/w, 1 full color on cover; 9 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 122 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
126 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-948626-74-3 (9781948626743)
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Clark Strand is the former senior editor at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. He is the current editor of the Haiku Challenge, which is a monthly Haiku context sponsored by Tricycle. He is the author of many books on spirituality and religion, including Seeds from a Birch Tree, Meditation Without Gurus, How to Believe in God, Waking the Buddha, and Waking Up to the Dark. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. With his wife, Perdita Finn, Strand is also the author of The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary, and the co-founder of an international, non-sectarian rosary fellowship.