Ode to El Camino de Santiago and Other Poems of Journey
Ebook
Ode to El Camino de Santiago and Other Poems of Journey is a collection of poems written in a variety of forms. The reader will find sonnets, a villanelle, rhyming quatrains, blank verse, and free verse. While the forms are varied, the theme connecting these poems is one of journey. Although, journey is understood as more than mere travel to other places. These poems are journeys of the meditative kind where destination is to be found in reflection, and arrival found in mindfulness. The settings range from a pilgrim's path in Spain in the opening poem to a childhood home in the closing one, and in between are others as far-flung as a refugee camp in Myanmar, a market square in Marrakech, and the rocky coast of Ireland.
“James Green’s carefully crafted, deeply felt poems are like
reverse ekphrastic works. . . . Here are lines
gathered from a world well traveled, of varied souls met in hazy
afternoons or by moonlight. Each is a gift of tears, laughter, or
miracle. These poems know the shape and dust of the path toward
home.”
—Jenny Kalahar, Editor, Last Stanza Poetry Journal
“James Green is indeed a pilgrim, a poet who consistently seeks ‘to
be in a place where strange is familiar’ and . . . to
discern the spirit in the varied textures of everyday life, in the
mysterious beauty of nature, and in the warm shadows of memory.
There are a number of pilgrimages to be savored here, but the end
point of each is a profoundly human beauty.”
—Jeffrey Essmann, Editor, The Catholic Poetry Room
“Green’s collection reminds us that travel introduces us not only
to new landscapes and peoples but also to undiscovered parts of
ourselves. Ode to El Camino de Santiago and Other Poems of
Journey is a gracious lesson in human nature. What a beautiful
stay against ethnocentrism, delivered in exquisite free verse and
artfully nuanced forms.”
—Mary M. Brown, Poetry Editor, Flying Island
“James Green shares with us insights gleaned not only from El
Camino de Santiago but from his other destinations on this planet.
His opening poem urges us to find ‘those sacred spaces where
clarity comes not from tortured thoughts but alights as a winged
peace in the quiet of night.’ . . . He points to ‘how one
will find teachings for human life wherever he goes.’ That he
does.”
—Barry Harris, Editor, Tipton Poetry Journal
“James Green’s carefully crafted, deeply felt poems are like
reverse ekphrastic works. . . . Here are lines
gathered from a world well traveled, of varied souls met in hazy
afternoons or by moonlight. Each is a gift of tears, laughter, or
miracle. These poems know the shape and dust of the path toward
home.”
—Jenny Kalahar, Editor, Last Stanza Poetry Journal
“James Green is indeed a pilgrim, a poet who consistently seeks ‘to
be in a place where strange is familiar’ and . . . to
discern the spirit in the varied textures of everyday life, in the
mysterious beauty of nature, and in the warm shadows of memory.
There are a number of pilgrimages to be savored here, but the end
point of each is a profoundly human beauty.”
—Jeffrey Essmann, Editor, The Catholic Poetry Room
“Green’s collection reminds us that travel introduces us not only
to new landscapes and peoples but also to undiscovered parts of
ourselves. Ode to El Camino de Santiago and Other Poems of
Journey is a gracious lesson in human nature. What a beautiful
stay against ethnocentrism, delivered in exquisite free verse and
artfully nuanced forms.”
—Mary M. Brown, Poetry Editor, Flying Island
“James Green shares with us insights gleaned not only from El
Camino de Santiago but from his other destinations on this planet.
His opening poem urges us to find ‘those sacred spaces where
clarity comes not from tortured thoughts but alights as a winged
peace in the quiet of night.’ . . . He points to ‘how one
will find teachings for human life wherever he goes.’ That he
does.”
—Barry Harris, Editor, Tipton Poetry Journal
- Title: Ode to El Camino de Santiago and Other Poems of Journey
- Author: James Green
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666793772, 1666793779
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666793772
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T19:59:41Z
James E. Green is a retired university professor and
administrator. He has published four chapbooks of poetry in
addition to this one, with individual poems having appeared in
literary journals in Ireland, the UK, and the USA. He has received
numerous awards for his poetry, as well as nominations for Sundress
Publications’ Best of the Net and the MLA Conference on
Christianity Book of the Year. His website can be found at
www.jamesgreenpoetry.net.