Goddesses, Goddesses

by Janine Canan

Award-winning author Dr. Janine Canan, M.D., offers her lyrical reflections on art, nature, history, masculine and feminine, the Great Mother, spirituality and love. Journeying with Canan, we meet... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587901293
• ISBN13: 9781587901294
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Regent Press
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.6"

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An enlightening amalgam of reflections upon spirituality, feminism, the Great Mother, and the nature

Poet, psychiatrist, and award-winning author Janine Canan presents Goddesses, Goddesses, a memoir comprised of essays recounting her encounters with visionary writers and poets. Among the individuals whose lives touched hers are Iris Murdoch, Else Lasker-Schuler, Marija Gimbutas, James Broughton, Diane Di Prima, Alma Villanueva, Ali Akbar Khan, Mata Amritanandamayi, and more. Poetic snippets written by these illuminating individuals intersperse the thoughtful discussion, fond memories, and moments of epiphany. An enlightening amalgam of reflections upon spirituality, feminism, the Great Mother, and the nature of love itself.

Goddesses, Goddesses, Essays by Janine Canan

These essays, written between 1978 and 2005 and published in various places, appear for the first time in one book. They document Janine Canan's life journey as a poet, see Changing Woman, 2000, and In the Palace of Creation, 2003, and as a spiritual seeker. Each essay describes an encounter with a poet, writer or musician who influenced Canan's life. Each essay reveals Canan's discovery of the feminine in an artist's work and life. Her prose like her poetry is sensuous, startling and precise. Her revelations on page after page are captivatingly personal and in their power and beauty are universally instructive.