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    The Poetry of Author David Sparenberg

      WORD Before the written word, there was the spoken word. Before the chronicles of history, there were stories. Before tabloids and the messy spawn of scandalous gossip, ballads and epic poems sounded in mouths of bards and minnesingers. Against the blind furies of forgetfulness, arose high cultures of memory. Long before civilized humanity slumped into pulp fiction and sado-masochistic fantasies, myths were weaving threads of truth into archetypes, extending the dimensions of reality. Guiding words of fire’s intensity and eloquence resonate joyously through the alchemic laboratories of time! You who have befriended Tolkien and the Shire, Arthur, Merlin, and voyagers to the Isle of Women, far, far off in…

  • Reviews

    Book Review – Confronting the Crisis: Essays and Meditations on Eco-Spirituality by David Sparenberg

    Book Review Confronting the Crisis Essays and Meditations on Eco-Spirituality by David Sparenberg Publisher: Moon Books 112 Pages Publication Date: November 1, 2021     Confronting the Crisis is a small volume of collected essays, meditations and occasional verse by ecosophist, poet and shamanic storyteller David Sparenberg. The subject of the essays range from the nature of humanity’s current relation with nature to the nature of reality itself, but the common thread throughout, weaving in and out of focus, is the looming specter of what Sparenberg calls Earth Crisis. Earth Crisis is the culmination of all the crises that we are currently facing: climate change, environmental disasters such as ubiquitous…