Update--March, 2009:
The blog has been updated, and the notes on Confucianism now includes the Analects and the Mencius.

 

Update--March, 2009:
Avant Garde for the New Millennium, an anthology edited by Forrest Armstrong, is now out. It includes Book 24 from To the House of the Sun, the first time any of the poem has appeared in print. Buy from Amazon




 

Update--October, 2008:
More reviews have come in for The Lit World--read them here.
 

The Inner Journey: Myth, Psyche and Spirit (edited by Martha Heyneman), is now available. Never mind my two-page retelling of the Sirens episode from the Odyssey that's included here; the other contributors make quite astounding company--Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, A. K. Coomaraswamy, Diane Wolkstein, Thomas Moore, and others. Buy it here.





Update--March 8, 2008:
This website was originally intended to for the many drafts of my long poem, To the House of the Sun. But as the poem is nearly done & likely to be released in the next few years, the most I can do anymore is post a few sections from the most recent version (which I will do over the next few months).

But the process of writing the poem--dealing as it does with myth & religion--has clarified the only other things I'm able to write anymore otherwise, & it is around these other projects I thought to reorient this page:

▪ a blog on religion & myth that I've moved here

▪ an endless series of short poems taken from history & myth & religion (some of which are linked to in the about page, & the first book of which will be out later this year)

▪ & a long nonfiction study on ritual & practice in world religion.

The section of Holy Notes is an ever-growing collection of sayings etc. that I've come across in the writing & preparation for all of these, while the Bookstore is a source for many (& more) of the books used.