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Rooted & Risen: Oral Poetry & Medicine Songs in Dialogue with Earth

A poetry recital by Timothy P. McLaughlin to celebrate the launch of his début poetry collection: Rooted & Risen (Hiraeth Press 2016). Singer Madi Sato and composer David Michael Tardy will accompany McLaughlin on stage.

This début collection of poems from Timothy P. McLaughlin chronicles an inspired intimacy with the still wild places and presences of the Earth. The musical, iridescent language delights the senses and draws the reader/listener back into an essential creatureliness and basic loving kinship with the natural world. Listening to the Rooted & Risen recital is akin to taking a long walk deep into the mountains, and into the self.

Advance Praise for Rooted & Risen
"Here is a wide-hearted man utterly in love with the broad-limbed trunks, with the antlered powers and the rain-swollen clouds. On some nights the crescent moon pours an unseen wine into his chest, and he begins to sing. His songs are these poems."
David Abram, author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

"I love this collection--love the soul/hearts evanescence flaking into stanzaic embodiments of bright effervescence to express our oneness, our beauty and fragility..."
Jimmy Santiago Baca, author of Singing at the Gates

"For poetry to do its magic, it must give the reader room to move freely, to change, tosee anew, to evoke a leap in the heart and an opening of the mind. McLaughlin offers all of the above--and more!"
Fr. Richard Rohr, author of Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"McLaughlin beautifully shares his vision of our planet. His writing reflects his devotion to the Lakota way of living in harmony and communication with all forms of life. Mitakuye Oyasin."
Basil Brave Heart, Lakota elder and author of The Spiritual Journey of a Brave Heart

"More than a faithful record of moments of true seeing, these poems can turn into ceremonies...the book becomes almost a manual on how to go out into the natural world, empty yourself, and listen."
Morgan Farley, author of Name Yourself Feast