As you may have gathered in a previous post here, the multidisciplinary Power of Animals conference I attended proved more seminal than I anticipated.
To get a taste of what transpired, you will find my notes and impressions as a Chronicle file, Power of Animals, at my Thistle Finch free digital bookstore. We were surrounded by genius.
Among other things, perspectives that were stirred up played into revisions I was making on my long mythopoem, American Olympus, and they definitely later influenced the “Miller at the Spring” and “Along with Kokopelli’s Hornpipe” portions of my Secret Side of Jaya novel.
Related poems were published in 2014 as a digital chapbook by Kind of a Hurricane Press,. In a Heartbeat focuses on the animal kingdom we humans belong to. You might it see it as a set of studies emerging over the years in response to the conference.
Check it out, and it’s free. While we’re at it, let’s add another Chronicle to the stack: On the Rock Wall, free at Thistle Finch. As my notes relate, this admiration of animals goes back to paleolithic cave artistry, after all.
All this goes well beyond the “Be Kind to Animals” button, doesn’t it?
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