Oak Wise (Expanded and Revised) Now on Amazon.com
The revised and expanded edition of Oak Wise: Poetry Exploring an Ecological Faith is now available on Amazon.com.
Oak Wise is a collection of Celtic-themed narrative poetry exploring the old wisdom of the Druidic and Shamanic ways of life. This collection is approachable to the curious seeker just beginning their exploration of the Old Ways; while at the same time remains insightful to long-time pathwalker. As a preface to her work, Browning offers her readers an introduction to the central beliefs of Shamanism, then proceeds to her poetry, where she descends with the reader into a intimate account of one seeker reflecting on the "Biological Mother" (the earth) while communing the ancestral consciousness to which we each are connected. In this, her debut work, Browning brilliantly reintroduces the ecological sensitivities of the old Earth-based faiths, which are profoundly relevant in this current age of environmental crisis.
"… Oak Wise is gentle, yet unrelenting in its exhortation of us to return to the land and a more conscious, spiritually engaged way of life." –J.M. Reinbold, Author of: Cernunnos, Ancient Celtic God
"In times when many are starting to remember we forgot many things along the road, the journey of L.M. Browning might arise other landscapes into the reader's life and the way we relate to nature and ourselves." --Ximena Eduarda, Druid Network
"In societies that still bear an imprint of 'the shamanic', male and female shamans are a voice of the sacred. In these worlds, from bardic Ireland to the crazy wisdom ngakpas of the Himalayas, poetry is a facet of the shamanic tradition. The work of L.M. Browning is undoubtedly one of these wisdom-streams. Her sight, voice and verses are a force of nature, simultaneously reminding us what we've forgotten and foretelling what we must remember to survive." -Frank Owen, creator of the online poetry experience NEKYIA.POETRY
"Browning's poems are of exquisite quality. Like all excellent poetry, no modifier, no imagery, no reference is gratuitous. Ms Browning's literary background is not only impressive, it is esthetically set to reinforce and construct a world of rich imagery. This work, is a serious expression with a precise goal and a dexterous poetic sense of architecture. There is a philosophical peace that overlays even the passages of questioning and unease in the writer's mind. The author takes us to a beautiful lyrical place that she has found and uses her talent as a poet to entice us." – Jean-Yves Vincent Solinga, Ph.D Author of In the Shade of a Flower and Clair-Obscur of the Soul
