Earth and Eros

DESCRIPTION

In the tradition of The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson and On the Loose by Terry and Renny Russell, Earth & Eros combines words and photographs to inspire readers to deepen their connection with the good earth and with their own capacity for reverence. The book is meant to awaken readers to the full force of eros—broadly defined as the life force that connects us to our bodies, to other humans, to all other living beings on the earth, and to the earth as a living being—in their own lives.

Intended as an antidote to an age obsessed by speed, screens, and machines, in which most people are not fully embodied, the 132-page book brings together previously published prose and poetry with 25 fine art landscape photographs to explore the sacred erotic dimension of humans’ relationship to the earth.

The writings in Earth & Eros were chosen for their brevity, readability, beauty, and potency, and the photographs for their sensuality. Between its covers readers will engage with writers such as David James Duncan, Hart Crane, Diane Ackerman, Sherman Alexie, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda. Some of the pieces of writing are explicitly and graphically sexual, while others appreciate the sensuality of tree limbs, seeping water, mushrooms, ferns, rich dark earth. Earth & Eros is beautifully produced and a pleasure to hold and to look at; it is a book that will be kept by the bedside or in the backpack and read and reread slowly, out loud.

EDITOR Lorraine Anderson

PHOTOGRAPHER Bruce Hodge

FOREWORD by Robert Michael Pyle

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