Bury The Seed: Poems for Releasing More Life into You
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Bury the Seed is a book for anyone seeking connection.
Brooke McNamara's second publication, Bury the Seed, is a four-part collection of poetry that invites us to revel in the wonder, mystery, and elegance of our ordinary, brief, and beautiful lives. A compilation of treasures for sharing or reading alone, these poems serve as both invitation and map, calling us to "bury the seed" of our everyday experiences so that we may open to more robust and delighted ways of being in the world.
Bury the Seed is divided into four parts: Bury, Tend, Harvest, Release. Each speaking to a richness born when we hold our experiences up to the light and allow them to take new shapes, to be made anew. Her poems are a study in the familiar, offering a lens so we may step back for another look. Brooke weaves words into relatable, contemplative lodestars that unfurl showing us where the treasure lay, always right under our noses, nestled in our longing, frustration, and surrender.
These poems acknowledge the sacredness and possibility that linger in our everyday experience, persisting in words: shape, mother, gesture, clenched, drown, nothing. Brooke shows us how a shift in angle stitches cobalt, soap, and roses into the fabric of memory. Bury the Seed is an answer to our longing for the exquisite. Her words remind us that it is in living where our brave sorrows and simple delights are transformed into the magic each of us seeks.
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Reviews
"This is feminine wisdom at its most luminous - radically accessible, urgently sensual, clear as snowmelt and grounded as a grandmother oak. Goddess save us from another self-important self-help book. Brooke McNamara's poetry is a bell: wake up; give thanks; leave nothing out."
MIRABAI STARR,
Author of Wild Mercy
and Caravan of No Despair
"Bury the Seed has become my new secret little pleasure that I gleefully pull out while in the line at the market, sitting in my dentist's office or while waiting for the light to change. I can't get enough of this delightfully refreshing reset of my mood and mindset. Every once in a while, a prophet appears in the form of a poet. I'm happy to say that Brooke McNamara is our most recent one. More please!"
KATHERINE WOODWARD THOMAS,
New York Times Bestselling Author
of Calling in "The One" and Conscious Uncoupling
"These are gloriously urgent wake-up poems -- wake up, astonished, to the only moment we have -- this moment! McNamara is a modern Zorba. She urges us to stop, to rest, to listen to the life pouring through and over us, to steep ourselves in the mystery that we are."
ROGER HOUSDEN,
Author of 10 Poems to Change Your Life,
Dancing with Joy, and Risking Everything
"Reading Brooke McNamara is like being pulled deliberately, ruthlessly through the eye of the needle.
This poetry is refuge. There is no protection from our luminous poverty, nowhere to hide from our belonging to everything. Only our tenderness can pass."
VERA DE CHALAMBERT,
Interspiritual Theologian,
Author of Kali Takes America
"Before beginning to read Brooke McNamara's second book of poetry, Bury the Seed, light a candle and wrap yourself in a hand knit heirloom blanket. Sip your coffee. Sit in practice for a while, just long enough to prepare yourself for 'cataclysmic knowing, ' a figure/ground shift of your being.
From the first poem to the last, McNamara evokes through her contemplations a spirit of humility, of the ground from which true reverence is born, and which opens the heart to receive all the varied resonances stirred by her words. She follows the path of gravity and descent, in Greek, kenosis, the emptying of the self which leads to katabasis, the passage down to the roots and foundations of all things. Brooke helps us recognize that this is the place of emptiness from which all possibility and renewal arises."
REV. DAVID C. MCCALLUM, S.J.
VP for Mission Integration and Development,
Le Moyne College
"Brooke's poems act to awaken this Supreme Identity--the unity of You and Divine Sprit Itself -- releasing the novel capacity of your own deepest Creativity. And this Kosmic vitality is what poetry at its best is meant to evoke, calling us to remember the radiant glory that is our own eternal soul. This is what Brooke does for us, for which we can all be truly, deeply grateful."
KEN WILBER,
Author of Grace and Grit,
A Brief History of Everything, and Integral Meditation
