Ask the Author: Christopher Rotvik
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Christopher Rotvik
To encourage what others have called the highest values in human awareness – love, compassion, insight, creativity, empathy, and personal growth.
Christopher Rotvik
You can preview any page within Dagaz from my website. Another option is to read selected works or all of Dagaz on the publishing platform Medium.
Christopher Rotvik
The ancient Norse rune of awakening, Dagaz, brings the overall theme. Symbolizing the potential for transformation – the book’s reason for being – Dagaz is aspirational (so, an apt title), invokes a powerful connection to Earth and spirit, and draws in companion runes as thematic signposts for each section.
At the heart of Dagaz (I’m now referring to the book), poetry cozies up to prose, offering a more creative and less strident delivery that’s hopefully engaging and easily considered. Taking cues from Japanese haiku and senryū, the poems are brief and approachable while carrying an Eastern sense of observation.
How runes, Dagaz in particular, first came to mind is now a humbling spiritual mystery, the synergy of content and form a matter of trusting intuitive guidance.
At the heart of Dagaz (I’m now referring to the book), poetry cozies up to prose, offering a more creative and less strident delivery that’s hopefully engaging and easily considered. Taking cues from Japanese haiku and senryū, the poems are brief and approachable while carrying an Eastern sense of observation.
How runes, Dagaz in particular, first came to mind is now a humbling spiritual mystery, the synergy of content and form a matter of trusting intuitive guidance.
Christopher Rotvik
My intuition is that, when read, capital-G God is immediately associated with a particular and familiar religious deity. So I’ve used small-g god to help the mind stay open to fresh interpretation, to a pan-denominational perspective.
Christopher Rotvik
As a yellow and coral sun resting just above azure waves, the cover iconography alludes to the break of day and a passage at sea. Less literal but equally important, the circle of the sun carries dual meanings of the oneness of all and eternal cyclic renewal. All of these are themes central to the book.
Christopher Rotvik
Dagaz is suited to grazing for the pleasure of insight, versus entertainment. It’s easy to pick up when called to, be it through inspiration or frustration, over days, weeks, or months. A task-oriented, get-it-done nature can get in the way of fully grasping what’s on offer.
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