Robinson Holly Lynn

Doe Songs (eBook, ePUB)

A Poetic Odyssey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a poetic odyssey chronicling the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of an African/American woman of part Native American ancestry as she navigates the challenges of living life as a Black woman in America. She is guided on her journey by Deer, her Totem and Spirit Guide, and the Spirit of the Great Mother Goddess, who come to her in poems, some introducing new stages in her life, some celebrating joyful moments, and some guiding her through difficult and challenging experiences. The poems in this book encompass both wide-ranging and intense breadth and depth. They are raw, intense, passionate, tender, and revealing, ranging from plaintive pleas of desperation to joyful songs of celebration. These poems capture the author's fears and hopes, joys and sorrows, passions and despairs, and loves and losses. They bear witness to her experience of life, starting from a shy and alienated teenager, through the intensities of love and marriage, and her descent into drugs and depression; through the devastations of infertility, early menopause, and divorce, to new loves and losses; the joy of experiencing motherhood and raising a child, and finally into her now twilight years. She has been guided through it all by seeking and listening to her Spirit Guides and her optimism and faith in both the Divine and humanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Outskirts Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781977278234
• Artikelnr.: 72356331

Autorenporträt

Holly Lynn Robinson has been writing poetry throughout her life, since high school, as her means of navigating the challenges of living life as a Black woman in America. Being of part Native American ancestry, Holly has embraced Deer, with its power of gentleness, as her Totem and Spirit Guide, and she also invokes the Spirit of the Great Mother Goddess. Her Deer and Divine Mother Spirit Guides come to her in poems introducing stages of her life: from a shy and alienated fawn descending into drugs and depression to a maturing one experiencing passionate self-awakening; from an adult doe navigating the joys and sorrows of love and loss, while learning lessons that move her from self-doubt to self-acceptance, to a mature one journeying through infertility and from menopause to motherhood and beyond. As she embraces her twilight years, guided by the Great Mother and her Spirit Doe, Holly is always seeking, ever exploring; still loving and learning her way day by day, as she continues navigating the challenges of living life as a Black woman in America. Holly is a retired law professor, who works part-time as an attorney and teaches GED prep classes to help students progress and improve their lives. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her daughter.