The Faust Woman Poems Naomi Ruth Lowinsky 9781926715971 Books
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What became of our fierce flowering?
In the 1960s and ‘70s the long forgotten and forbidden Great Goddess roused herself from millennia of slumber and took possession of young women’s imaginations. That cast out She offered a Faustian bargain—She would rip you out of your narrow domesticated self image, thrust you into the wilds of sex, power and creativity, initiate you into the mysteries of Earth and Starry Heaven, but you would owe Her your soul. A generation of women followed Her. Some knew her as Feminism, some knew her as the Deep Feminine, many as both.
The Faust Woman Poems trace one woman’s Faustian adventures through that time. Most of a lifetime later the Great Goddess returns to the poet. As oceans rise and species die She demands Her due.
The Faust Woman Poems Naomi Ruth Lowinsky 9781926715971 Books
In "Celestial Pablum," the cover art work for "The Faust Woman Poems" by surrealist artist Remedios Varo, a tired woman feeds a waning moon in a cage the stuff of stars. Without the Great Goddess, the Deep Feminine, women themselves may feel that their true natures are forbidden and caged by society and daily circumstance.Varo spoke of her journey into the great, multidimensional mystery of her universe and her self in paint. Naomi Ruth Lowinsky ("Adagio & Lamentation") speaks of the journey through life's lunar phases with words that are simultaneously darkly earthy and shining with the energy of the light of night. If a woman escapes that cage and feels her light quicken, ascend, and peak, perhaps the Goddess will return after the dark begins to stir and claim her poet's soul in payment.
In the introductory poem, "To the Girl in a Veil With Rosebuds and Forebodings," the Goddess promises the coming-of-age young woman that "I'll get you out of the gusseted satin with scratchy lace sleeves and too many not fun buttons." She also promises broken eggs, broken commandments, blood and thunder. The journey that follows unfolds in this 90-page collection in four parts: Faust Woman, Witch's Sabbath, Earth Spirit, and In the Hands of the Night.
Lowinsky unlocks breathtaking stories, secrets and images with exquisitely crafted poems that have so obviously been lived in and held close that the readers may feel they have come across a diary intended for the privacy of a nightstand.
In "To my Long Ago Lady Delight," the words for are ancient and primal:
Before Eve sank her teeth into God's own fruit
Before lust abandoned me
there was a time my Lilith
when you were my own honey cave
my snake in the fervent grass
In "A Brief History of Mothers and Daughters," the sweet memories are sharper than a knife:
We were the daughters of Moon Tide, of Life Lust
of what insisted on coming through us. We smoked it
We drank it. We ingested its Magic
Mushrooms. We saw molecules dance
on a leaf, in a stone. We were daughters
of First People, of rivers, of trees. We belonged
to each other. We belonged to the earth. Mystery
called us by name.
Throughout its four quarters, this book is a lush garden of experience, a book of sacred shadows, and a path for others to follow in their own ways if they dare.
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The Faust Woman Poems Naomi Ruth Lowinsky 9781926715971 Books Reviews
Always a breath of fresh air, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky (Ph.D., Center for Psychological Studies) is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Berkeley, California, and the poetry editor of Psychological Perspectives. She has published widely with recent appearances in Runes, Dogwood, Comstock Review, Rattle, and Backwards City Review. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize three times. Her poetry collections include `crimes of the dreamer' and The Sister from Below When the Muse Gets Her Way. She is also the author of The Motherline Every Women's Journey to Find Her Female Roots.
To appreciate the sensitivity of this poet means exploring her Jungian roots and the ever present attention to feminist issues. This collection is one of her finest. Some examples follow
YOUR PROBLEM
In a peanut butter and jelly haze
in play dough and Lego worlds
amidst unmade beds and Mrs. Dalloway
lost in a pile of laundry all the edges
of your days unraveling between baby cries
and dinner between the earth spirit
who has opened you up and the call
of that angel before you fall
If there are rainbows
you don't see them If songs are singing
they don't sing to you If poems are forming
deep in the dangerous woods you can't hear them
Poems are wild things They'll eat you up
just like the wolf your grandmother haw warned you
But somewhere in a grotto the witch
who has known you all your life is busy
fermenting her brew....
WHEN I DIE
I want the window's yellow rose
to kiss my eyes goodbye - before
green sisters do their rattle dance - before
I'm drunk by sun and swallowed
by the moon before the earth
starts chewing on my bones - and you
to whom I leave my words - listen
for me in the grass - If I can lick
your lips and steal into your ears
when I am long past breath I'll borrow yours
and swing into your beating heart
Where I will sing a beat or two before
you breathe me out again -
into the hungry sky
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky incorporates the Faust legend into these poems in her own language, her own perspective, and some how the result is a lingering desire to be within her womb of warm creativity. Grady Harp, June 13
I read The Faust Woman Poems the day after hearing Naomi Lowinsky read from her book at a poetry reading. It's beautifully written, from beginning to end, a true classic that will nourish an older feminist generation and today's younger women. I love the trajectory of the book, moving from poems about her younger, more fiery period to becoming an older woman. The ending poem is gorgeous and predicts a wonderful future for her book. It could serve as her epitaph, but let's put that on hold for quite a few years! In a variation on a sonnet, she addresses us, her readers, and concludes
--If I can lick
your lips and steal into your ears
when I am long past breath I'll borrow yours
and swing into your beating heart
where I will sing a beat or two before
you breathe me out again--
into the hungry sky
In "Celestial Pablum," the cover art work for "The Faust Woman Poems" by surrealist artist Remedios Varo, a tired woman feeds a waning moon in a cage the stuff of stars. Without the Great Goddess, the Deep Feminine, women themselves may feel that their true natures are forbidden and caged by society and daily circumstance.
Varo spoke of her journey into the great, multidimensional mystery of her universe and her self in paint. Naomi Ruth Lowinsky ("Adagio & Lamentation") speaks of the journey through life's lunar phases with words that are simultaneously darkly earthy and shining with the energy of the light of night. If a woman escapes that cage and feels her light quicken, ascend, and peak, perhaps the Goddess will return after the dark begins to stir and claim her poet's soul in payment.
In the introductory poem, "To the Girl in a Veil With Rosebuds and Forebodings," the Goddess promises the coming-of-age young woman that "I'll get you out of the gusseted satin with scratchy lace sleeves and too many not fun buttons." She also promises broken eggs, broken commandments, blood and thunder. The journey that follows unfolds in this 90-page collection in four parts Faust Woman, Witch's Sabbath, Earth Spirit, and In the Hands of the Night.
Lowinsky unlocks breathtaking stories, secrets and images with exquisitely crafted poems that have so obviously been lived in and held close that the readers may feel they have come across a diary intended for the privacy of a nightstand.
In "To my Long Ago Lady Delight," the words for are ancient and primal
Before Eve sank her teeth into God's own fruit
Before lust abandoned me
there was a time my Lilith
when you were my own honey cave
my snake in the fervent grass
In "A Brief History of Mothers and Daughters," the sweet memories are sharper than a knife
We were the daughters of Moon Tide, of Life Lust
of what insisted on coming through us. We smoked it
We drank it. We ingested its Magic
Mushrooms. We saw molecules dance
on a leaf, in a stone. We were daughters
of First People, of rivers, of trees. We belonged
to each other. We belonged to the earth. Mystery
called us by name.
Throughout its four quarters, this book is a lush garden of experience, a book of sacred shadows, and a path for others to follow in their own ways if they dare.
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