Before the Sun Rises

by Gwendolyn Morgan

Before the Sun Rises is poetry of awakening and listening to the natural world at this turbulent time on our planet.  Gwendolyn Morgan evokes a dreamtime threshold of climate change, global initiations, corvid and celestial convergences.  She interweaves her observations of swans, deer and rabbits with morning tea and auto-immune disorders, tracking our personal and political realities in the context of the natural world with spiritual practices.  She names seasonal migrations, loon feathers, breath.    This collection of poems invites us to honor the messages of the earth as our ancestors call us to offer our gifts for the healing of ourselves and the world.   

102 pages, Paperback

Published June 21, 2019

About the author

Gwendolyn Morgan is a Pacific Northwest poet and artist. She learned the names of birds and inherited paintbrushes and wooden paint boxes from both her grandmothers. With an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College and an MDiv from San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, she has been the recipient of a few artist residencies including a 2020 Centrum Artist Residency. Currently the Clark County Poet Laureate 2018-2020 in Washington State, her third book of poetry, Before the Sun Rises, is a Nautilus Silver award winner in Poetry

Reviews

[the.smashbot.diaries · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful, sad, peaceful, grim, hopeful, . This book of poems sent me on a rollercoaster of emotions and states of being. I know I will need to reread this many times to appreciate the full depth.