Aflame is the first book written by the author (1998) during an intense and splendid reverie of eclosion which set mind, body and spirit aflame with visions and inspiration in order “to arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses.” Aflame is a glorious and boldly playful work of imaginative bonfire as well as a warm transpersonal celebration of fellow artists, nature, life and wonder. This third book by poet Casey Carter is the counterpoint to Falling Leaves Observation...

Joy music with a backdrop of honey bees and heart meditation. Raw Heart Honey was written 2012-2013 in dedication to Love with Love.

On an oasis of secluded beach consisting of tunneled sea grape and breezy Australian Pine, Currents was composed in 2001 during calming retreats of sunshine and blue green salt water in the keys of vigor and youth. The style and nature of the book per-mutate sporadically or swirl together from poem to poem as the ebb and flow of Currents and all the title implies. Furthering the dualistic themes of Aflame (1998) and Falling Leaves Observation (1999)- Currents fluctuates between confessiona...

Composed in the aspen flooded alpines of Colorado (2008) and on the shores of Lake Sydney Lanier (2010) Woods By Day Bars By Night is part lyric poetry, part hymnal in the spirit of the hunt for revelations and habitual reminders- past and present. This song book is an ode to troubadours and free-wheelers of all cast and stripe, while interweaving narrative arcs set to the comprehensive themes of joyous woodland strolls and wistful blues. Woods By Day Bars By Night is also the lyric compan...

Evolving since 2001, ARCANE CHANGE was written in an effort to dissolve again into the horizon of the soul. To come into touch with reality and even to live it. The outlines we see traced through linear time are paths we are called to move beyond. In each individuals life, at one point or another, astounding and diverse transformations occur along the voyage of self discovery. For some, it is reality itself that experience embraces, for others, it is only a phantom. But phantom or reality,...

Originally written (1999) as a counterpoint to Book I: Aflame (1998), Falling Leaves Observation explores autumn landscapes of death, harvest, renewal, rebirth, and the human condition.

"This book reminds us that there is more to education than preparing students for high-stakes tests. It is our responsibility to intentionally develop the whole child."—Irwin Kurz, Former Director of School QualityHeritage Academies, Grand Rapids, MI"Samuel Casey Carter shows how great cultures—not big bucks, smaller class sizes, different curriculums, or better buildings—are what we need to save our education system."—Jay Mathews, Columnist a...

Exciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness. With imagination, wit and scrupulous candour, Chris Hutchinson’s poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man’s-land between self and others, introspection and public life. Here are poems carrying unflinching perceptions on their own innovative, edgy music, refusing inflations of rhetoric and complacent notions of the inner life, bringing skeptical intelligence and radical imagination-those supposedly incompatible room-mates...

Christopher Dewdney’s at his most accessible in this avant-garde collection of postmodern love poetry. These experimental poems capitalize on his fascination with the natural world and feature themes of science, madness, and elegance.

[To] The Last [Be] Human collects four extraordinary poetry books—Sea Change, Place, Fast, and Runaway—by Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham.From the introduction by Robert Macfarlane:The earliest of the poems in this tetralogy were written at 373 parts per million of atmospheric CO2, and the most recent at 414 parts per million; that is to say, in the old calendar, 2002 and 2020 respectively. The body of work gathered here stands...

A luminous collection spanning three decades from one of America's most acclaimed poetsChristian Wiman, hailed for his "daring and urgent" poetry (The New York Times Book Review), has forged a singular style that fuses vivid musicality, clear-eyed realism, wry humor, and visionary intensity. In his critically acclaimed memoir, My Bright Abyss, Wiman ponders poetry's role in a world afire. Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems stands as a powerful response.

However grand or short our tale, it is the moment we set sail, when all the former pale away, a fresh new wind come into play, that lets us see in grand array: it was the entire journey, that made our perfect day! Hurry, scurry, there now in summer's flurry come and walk with me, and on a mountain see, the view eclipse magically, the ardour of our century.