Description: "This collection invites readers into the body's rhythms of creation, love, and loss-affirming that even as we see only in part, "the moon is always whole" within and beyond chronic illness, ancestral trauma, silencing, betrayal"--
Brief description: Julia Baker Swann has many places she calls home. The diversities of internal and external landscapes speak through her poetry and visual art. She completed undergraduate studies at Goshen College and has postgraduate studies in Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy. She lives with her husband in Richmond, Indiana, where she is completing an MA in Theopoetics and Writing at Bethany Theological Seminary. She is poetry editor at Geez Magazine. This is her first poetry collection.
Review Quotes:
"Julia Baker Swann's evocative poems invite us to dance with the elements of earth and the universe, to celebrate our complicated layers and our burning core, and to enter with her into the illuminations of both intimacy and vastness, poems that offer "this miraculous carried by bodies" that call us to "hold fast to the circle within." -Jean Janzen, Author, What the Body Knows
"Baker Swann shows us 'all not labeled God is part of God'-this poem, her laugh, that woodpecker, those tears, the fiddle hum. This is a theopoetics that awakens us to the wonder of both word and world." -Scott Holland, Slabaugh Professor of Theology & Culture at Bethany Theological Seminary
"This is a marvelous book of grace, praise, wonder, and joy. This is a rare talent in tune with the world." -Lee Herrick, Author, Scar and Flower (2019) and Gardening Secrets of the Dead (2012)