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A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances
A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances

A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances

POETRY

150 Pages, 5.45 x 8.56

Formats: Trade Paper, EPUB

Trade Paper, $14.95 (US $14.95) (CA $20.00)

Publication Date: May 2015

ISBN 9780996087292

Rights: WOR

Green Writers Press (May 2015)

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Overview

A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances is a poetry cycle of singular beauty in nature and reveals an inherent Buddhist quality. Jarrette’s poems are clear and meditative, unfailingly beautiful. They are self-aware but not self-obsessed, singing with the ecstatic humility of a mystic or shaman as they join all the subjects of a life well lived within nature that is ever present. The poems dance and sing and play and rest with their subjects to present a truly beautiful vision of the world. The ending poem, “The Pond,” is perfectly representative of all the others before it, and yet its impressive scope doesn’t rob any glory from what precedes it.  The poems create their own world where they solve their own problems, build memories, and speak to each other. Richard Jarrette’s book is a manifestation of the inherent conversation between human nature and the wild around us that sustains indivisible mutual integrity and ceases at our peril.

Reviews

"This profound, grave, and original book investigates all being, and all attention, through one scarred, silent, four-footed master of the pasture.  Richard Jarrette#&39;s Beso will, I predict, take his place beside his fellow immortals--Jammes#&39;, Jimenez#&39; and Nasruddin#&39;s own donkeys, E.B. White#&39;s pig, Christopher Smart#&39;s cat, Umberto Saba#&39;s goat...yet like any living creation, Beso stands also alone, unlike anything but himself.

Simply and without reservation, from first page to last, I am entirely taken and altered by these spare, wise, hauntingly conceived, brilliantly crafted poems." — Jane Hirshfield



"Richard Jarrette#&39;s voice is unique. I don#&39;t know anyone writing in a manner similar to his. There are echoes of Merwin, Rumi, the Chinese, but the texture and tone are all his own. The poems that pre-date Beso the Donkey are building to the miracle of what he accomplished there. But these have their own delights and mysteries, their illuminations and wonder. There is so much richness in his vision and a sense of the sacred along with an accomplished grace that is rare to find these days. It is wonderful to enter these poems." — Joseph Stroud, author of Of This World: New and Selected Poems


“Richard Jarrette has once again raised the hairs on my neck and sent a shiver down my spine with his remarkable new poems. I am deeply moved by and grateful for his outstanding poetry.” — Sam Hamill, author of Habitation: Collected Poems and Crossing The Yellow River

Author Biography

Richard Jarrette is author of Beso the Donkey (Michigan State University Press, 2010)—Gold Medal winner for Poetry Midwest Independent Publishers Association 2011, A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances (Green Writers Press, 2015), The Beatitudes of Ekaterina (Green Writers Press, 2017). He is Poetry Columnist for VOICE Magazine of Santa Barbara and his books have been endorsed by W.S.Merwin, Jane Hirshfield, Joseph Stroud, Sam Hamill, and others. He lives semi-reclusively in the Central Coast area of California and is far into his next poetry collection, It Is Never Finished, inspired by the ancient Chinese poets who named names, praised, and preserved.

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