{"product_id":"my-beautiful-ruins-poems-paperback","title":"My Beautiful Ruins: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCraig Ciarán Lennon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMy Beautiful Ruins\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e are steeped like a soothing tea in timelessness, mysticism, twilight states, and the ebb and flow of a soul moving freely between the provinces of the visible and the unseen worlds. At times the tea becomes dark and bitter, shamanic, surreal, cruel and fragmented like the underground currents of our psyche. Poets who follow the reverie of the soul's calling must surrender to the interior descent into wounding, brokenness and domains absent of light. This is the only path into integration, awakening and luminous bliss.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In his poetic form, Craig Lennon expresses the deepest and most vulnerable aspects growing from a boy to an individuating person. From the spiritual aspect of paradox, the father wound produces longing and depth, thus \"the beautiful ruins.\" His poetry invites us to both Celtic melancholy and the beauty beneath our experiences. Reading this book touches the soul. --Don Bisson is a Jungian-oriented, Christian spiritual director.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In this graceful, beautiful collection, Craig Lennon has crafted a series of elegant elegies, not only for the dead, but for us the still living. Reading it is a journey, and we are fuller for it. His readers will no doubt cherish this wonderful work.\" --Phillip X. Levine is the Poetry Editor of \u003cem\u003eChronogram Magazine.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Craig Lennon's poetry is personal, lyrical, demanding, and hopeful. It invites the reader to enter a world that is filled with loss and abuse, but is also creative, healing and full of awe.\" --Jack Rathschmidt, Ph.D. is a Capuchin Franciscan Friar who has traveled all over the world preaching and teaching. He is and the author of \u003cem\u003eDoorways to Holiness\u003c\/em\u003e from Paulust Press.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a very personal writing by Craig Ciar n Lennon. It is intense, therapeutic, even cathartic, rich with imagery from the Irish spiritual tradition. St. Ciar n of Clonmacnoise is clearly a central heroic figure of deep inspiration.\" --Dara Molloy is a Celtic priest living on the Aran Island of Inis Mor off the west coast of Ireland. He is and the author of \u003cem\u003eLegends in the Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Globalization of God: Celtic Spiritual Nemesis\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 130\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 24, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42738312740927,"sku":"9780997896404","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/feb832773c88f2af3076cbd400e014bf.webp?v=1765152887","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/my-beautiful-ruins-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}