Meditations with Animals by Gerald Hausman

Meditations with Animals by Gerald Hausman

NATIVE AMERICAN / SPIRITUALITY These powerful poems and meditations, drawn from Native America legends and stories, bring forth sacred animal spirits and remind us of our deep connection to Mother Earth. In the words of a 101-year-old Santo Domingo Pueblo man who first encountered this book on the lips of his grandson: Tell the poet he hit the true vein--the old ways are still our ways, and they will never die. Praise for Meditations With Animals In this collection of verse and story, we are brought into the primordial community of the universe, the Earth, and all living things. --Thomas Berry, from his introduction Praise for Gerald Hausman's earlier work Hausman's work is spare and suggesting, evoking mood through images in the natural world.his work is influenced both in style and tone by Native American songs.strong, clear, elemental poems. --Publisher's Weekly Praise for Bear & Company's Meditations With series These quiet presentations of spirituality are remarkable for their immediacy and clarity. --Publisher's Weekly GERALD HAUSMAN has received high acclaim for his numerous works on Native America subjects. His books include: Meditations with the Navajo, Turtle Island Alphabet, Native American Animal Stories, Ghostwalk, Prayer to the Great Mystery, Navajo Nights, and Eagle Boy. He lives on an island in southwestern Florida.

Hausman, Gerald: - GERALD HAUSMAN, the author of more than 70 books for children and adults spent much of his adult life in New Mexico during which time he translated Native origin stories with Navajo artist and friend, Jay DeGroat. Many of these were aired on Navajo Nation radio station KTNN and The Turquoise Horse was included in the Junior Great Books international reading program. It is used in classrooms throughout the U.S. and in the twenty years since its first publication has become a classic in cultural learning for elementary and middle school students. His folktales have also been aired on the History Channel, NPR, and Pacifica Broadcasting. In 2006 the University of Washington Graduate Film School, (supported by Myra and Bill Gates Foundation and Pixar) created an animated short from Gerald Hausman's book, The Boy with the Sun Tree Bow. It has been used as a textbook for environmental studies in South America. Twelve of Gerald's other books are translated in foreign languages and The New York Times praised the anthology Tunkashila: From the Birth of Turtle Island to the Blood of Wounded Knee calling it An eloquent tribute to the first great storytellers of America. Other honors for Gerald Hausman's work are from the American Folklore Society, the American Bookseller, Children's Protective Services, the Bank Street College of Education, the National Council of Social Studies, the International Reading Association, Parent's Choice, The Ministry of Education of Jamaica, The New York Public Library Best Books, and CCBC Choices/Best of the Year. Gerald and his wife Loretta have done a number of animal books together and with Alice Winston Carney they have led a summer workshop in memoir writing at The Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico, for the past nine years. Gerald and Loretta also founded Irie Books which publishes memoirs, children's books, poetry, biography and translations. Gerald's most recent book is Island Dreams: Selected Poems from 1964-2015. He has read his poetry at Harvard University, St John's College, the Kennedy Center, Fordham University, Queen's College and dozens of other universities nationwide.

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ISBN 13	9780939680269
ISBN 10	0939680262
Title	Meditations with Animals
Author	Gerald Hausman
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Year published	1986-06-01
Number of pages	144
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