Writing Circles for Healing - My Poetry Book: Ceremonies

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Ceremonies of the Spirit

love poems sensual and celestial

cover art by Helena Nelson-Reed (Plain View Press, 2009)

Ceremonies of the Spirit travels a spiral from infatuation to consecration. Ceremonies has been called "gorgeous", "exquisite", "flirty", and "joyous work that should be celebrated. ...engrossing, vibrant, honest, theatrical, mystical, lyrical, poignant, passionate, expressive, ceremonial, heart-achieving, soul-renewing..."

Here are poems that are living, breathing things; that invite us into them, welcome us into their elegant, ethereal dance, and walk us across the threshold into sanctuary where we look inward, feed the soul's spark, commune with enlightenment, and transform.

Wendy Brown-Baez creates beautiful work in this collection.

--Michael Parker, reviewer for Oranges & Sardines

...news of a book being born ...brings back an image of a poet performing a poem in New Mexico years ago, she wrapped herself in a shawl and spoke of falling in love in the Middle East...That's what Wendy does, she connects us with words and wraps us in the safety of a shawl so we can fall in love with poetry once again.

--Gary Glazner, Founder of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project

Wendy Brown-Baez writes in the heat from ecstatic love, loss, Mexico, and New Mexico. She has the poetry muscles and music for this harsh calling. Quemado, Qué madre! These poems are very powerful!

--Joan Logghe, Founder of Write Action writing workshop and author of Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man, Sofia, and Rice

Ceremonies of the Spirit takes us on a journey from surrendering the things—and people—we love, to being transformed as a result of that process. The poems in this collection are rich with images that ...remind us what it’s like to be human.

--John Medeiros, recipient of Minnesota State Arts Board and Jerome Foundation grants and co-curator of GLBT readings series in MN

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