BRIGHT WILD STONE: A CONTEMPLATIVE JOURNAL OF ROOTS THAT SHAPE A LIFE by Rusty C. Moe DAN CARPENTER--(author of Hard Pieces: Dan Carpenters Indiana and Out Loud: Dan Carpenter on the Heartland Beat--Rusty Moes spiritual memoir is a lyric prose poem of pilgrimage that merrily turns Saint Augustine and Thomas Merton on their heads. In sequence or at random, I can visit any section and find poetry, spirituality and physicality together, unfenced. Inspired in its language, deeply meditative, fearless and mischievous, Bright Wild Stone achieves the trinity its title promises. LIBBY FALK JONES (professor of English at Berea College and author Above the Eastern Treetops, Blue)--I want to lay bare my own gospel to myself, writes Rusty Moe, in this journal of his sixtieth year. But do not be misled, dear reader. His good news is to us all - his intimacy, universality. As this poet wanders from nowhere to right now and back to maybe, he traces a spirit journey through night skies and grasses, music and art, Syds Bar and church basements. Whether commemorating his Grams and Aunt Get, dialoguing with Brother Paul Quenon at the Abbey of Gethsemani and Michigan hangman Phil Hanna, or communing with a whitetail deer, Rusty Moe probes the fiery stillness at his core in words guaranteed to put skin over your joy. Lucky for us that this writer dares to live as out loud as he can. Bright Wild Stone is a praise song to truth - to the exuberance, wonder, grace of a humans life. Read it and be transformed. Comments about Rustys writings-- ROBERT LAX--Sweet, heavenly voice! BROTHER PATRICK HART--Rusty Moes incarnational poetry speaks to the heart. JONATHAN MONTALDO--A hearts fierce psalms bloom intricate in shades of grateful prayer and protests. Strongly accomplished, powerfully beautiful. PHILIP GULLEY--Rusty Moe has written a world I desperately want to live in. Touching and true--one moment, witty; the next moment, heart-rending--his poems do everything good writing should do. Rusty C. Moe is also the author of three books of poetry--Our Presence Together In Chaos, Where God Lives (Black Moss Press), Way-Marks: New Poems (Fourth Lloyd Productions). A native of Midland, Michigan, Rusty has been, for many years, a psychotherapist in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he lives with his partner, Tim Hoover. He is a supervisor in the marriage and family therapy program at Christian Theological Seminary, an instructor with the Indianapolis Gestalt Institute, and a former retreat animator for the Thomas Merton Institute For Contemplative Living. His website address is books.rustymoe, and he can be reached by e-mail at [email protected].
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