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Read Introduction by Mara Keller Read "A visit from Iris" Read Midwest Book Review |
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| Award-winning
author Janine Canan offers her lyrical reflections on art, nature,
history, masculine and feminine, the Great Mother, spirituality
and love. Journeying with Canan, we meet Iris Murdoch, Else Lasker-Schüler,
Marija Gimbutas, James Broughton, Diane Di Prima, Alma Villanueva,
Ali Akbar Khan, Mata Amritanandamayi, and other visionaries of
our time. “Many of these essays are about the friendships of this remarkable woman poet, author and psychiatrist, with an array of cultural luminaries…Canan offers us the gift of encountering these wonders of the human spirit, as if she had arranged a special party of her friends and invited us all to attend.”—Mara Keller, California Institute of Integral Studies “I especially enjoyed Canan’s stories of meetings with Iris Murdoch, Amma, and her historical sweep through the poetic renaissance of feminism.” —Ellen Bass, The Human Line “I read Janine Canan’s book of essays…engrossed in her interactions with those who have inspired her…and the small, important details of her life, its adventurous, productive creativity and the decades in which it matured. A psychoanalyst as well as a poet, her insights stunned me…And I loved the quotes from the streams of her gorgeous lyric and prose poetry. Her work reflects her view of the art as 'a calling, a gift, a devotion, a duty and, finally, a mystery.'" Brava! —Phyllis Koestenbaum, Doris Day & Kitschy Melodies $16. Available from Janine Canan, regentpress.net, and all bookstores (distributed through Ingram and Baker & Taylor). |
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Journeys with Justine  |
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| Fiction/ Spirituality/Women | Read Contents Read Chapter 13, "A Good Laugh" Read Review by Carol Fabric |
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| Journeys with Justine is
a stunningly original collection of tales describing the adventures
and epiphanies of Justine, a contemporary seeker who travels from
California to the Olympic Peninsula, New York, France, Bali and
India, in search of her Self. On her journey from disillusion to
illumination, she encounters artists, lovers and saints, death,
Earth and the Goddess. Canan’s sensuous, lyrical and revelatory
stories are warmly illustrated by Cristina Biaggi. “Reading this book is like savoring a tasty dish. Every sentence, like every bite of a gourmet dinner, is a pleasure. What an impact language has when a poet writes prose!” —Linda Johnsen, Daughters of the Goddess “Journeys with Justine has all the feminine sensibility of Canan's poetry...an inspiring and most unusual spiritual novel sparkling with tender irony, sweet humor, and disarming intelligence. Canan gently invites the reader to journey in a world made meaningful by the search for wisdom and softened by the light of kindness and beauty. ” —Christine Mathieu, Leaving Mother Lake “Every woman who lived through the Sixties—or wanted to—should read this book.” —Nancy Leatzow, Yoga teacher “Canan’s stories are light as a feather: lyrical, fresh, unadorned, and often surprising. Each touched me to the pleasure point, some bringing a smile of delight--others a slight lump in the throat--and always a thrill at the subtle use of language in her telling of the story. I didn’t want the book to end.” —Vicki Noble, Shakti Woman “The Journeys are a pure delight—mystical, magical, metaphorical, metaphysical, philosophical, spiritual, inspirational, illuminating, whimsical, poignant, and so beautifully crafted—like a gloriously polished string of pearls….These adventures and, yes, escapades build and build to a joyous ending: The suffering and pain of life comes through strongly, but beautifully tempered by the joys that are there if we have the courage to seek them.” —Darlene Phillips, attorney, teacher $16. Available from JanineCanan.com, regentpress.net, and all bookstores (distributed through Ingram and Baker & Taylor). |
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Walk Now In Beauty The Legend of Changing Woman  |
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| The story of the Navajo Creation Goddess,
Changing Woman, by poet Janine Canan, exquisitely illustrated with contemporary "sand paintings" by reknowned artist Ernest Posey, 36 pages, $18. Hand-colored copies, signed by author and artist, $48. Available from www.RegentPress.net and all bookstores. |
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MESSAGES FROM AMMA In the Language of the Heart 
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Celestial
Arts, Berkeley, 2004, 177 pages, color photographs
"Amma's spiritual hugs and charitable works, including orphanages, women's shelters, hospices and vocational education for the poor, have helped her to become what many Hindus and non-Hindus consider a living saint." -- The Lost Angeles Times "Amma has comforted with her wonderful
hugging ... more than 21 million people.....She stands here before
us: God's love in a human body."--Jane Goodall, author
of Reason for Hope Known to millions as Amma ('mother")
or Ammachi ("beloved mother"), the Indian holy woman Mata Amritanandamayi
is one of the most extraordinary forces healing our planet
today. Born in 1954, Amma has spent most of her life traveling
the world offering her message of love and compassion, bestowing
an estimated 30 million hugs and blessings, and creating a
vast network of charities for the poor. In 2002 she received
the Gandhi-King Non-Violence Award. With Amma's permission,
Janine Canan has collected and poetically translated quotations
from her public talks, personal dialogues and songs. This stunning
edition includes 125 examples of Amma's timeless teachings
with 14 beautiful color images of this great modern-day saint. |
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| Scars Publications, Chicago,
2003, 146 pages Illustrated by Meagan Shapiro Read introduction by Mary Mackey Janine Canan is a poet of questing imagination and seemingly endless originality. For over thirty years her poetry has appeared in magazines, anthologies, and in her ten published collections, beginning in 1977 with Of Your Seed (Oyez: Berkeley) and ending with her incomparable Changing Woman (Scars: Chicago, 2000). Now with the publication of In The Palace of Creation , her readers can for the first time experience the full range of her poetry in a single collection. Wisely selected by poet and editor Susan Hahn, the poems in this volume bear witness to the evolution of Canan's creative voice from 1969 to 1999. Here the reader will find simple poems like "Before the Storm" which testify to Canan's enduring love of nature; metaphorically complex poems like "The Abandoned Garden" which are both erotic and sorrowful; poems like "Wild Music," modeled after the lyrics of the great Hindu mystical poet Mirabai, which reveal the most intimate depths of Canan's spiritual life; and poems like "At the Vulva Stone," written to the Great Goddess and ardently feminist while never ceasing to be sensuous and lyrical. Canan has been influenced by Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Anna Akhmatova, Carolyn Kizer, and Denise Levertov. The reader will find poems to all of them here as well as Canan's translations of poems by Else Lasker-Schüler, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Mirabai. This is an unusually rich collection. Perhaps Canan herself best captures the spirit of it when she says in her long prose meditation "A Good Laugh": "beauty is created constantly everywhere . . . The whole is a splendid vast writhing joyous and suffering Serpent, shedding her skin as She wiggles along, perpetually revealing a new Self that rises out of her own pure delight." --Mary Mackey (from
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CHANGING WOMAN  |
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| Poems 1986—1998, Scars Publications,
Chicago IL, 2000, 172 pages, $13. Contains three award-winning poems. |
Read Review by Alma Villanueva | ||
| "One poet's penetrating journey
through the metamorphic realms of bewilderment and bliss." —James
Broughton, poet "Canan shows us the wild imbalance of our planet—forgotten Mother of us all….Some of the best and strongest poems Canan has ever written." —Mary Mackey, novelist. "Canan's poems breathe with wild and fertile imagery, energy and wisdom, reflecting an inner purity and goddess essence."—Mish Bertrand, Goddessing. "A journey that could only be made by a mature poet."—Alma Villanueva, Kalliope "One of the most affecting poets I read today," Robert Hawley, publisher. "Pick of the Month", Small Press Traffic. |
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GODDESS POEMS  |
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| Sagittarius
Press, Port Townsend WA, 1997, 20 pages, $7. Six poems from Changing Woman, printed on letterpress Available from Janine Canan. |
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| Translations, bilingual
edition with illustrations by the poet, Holy Cow! Press, Duluth MN, 2000, 123 pages, $12.95. |
Read review by Ruth Brin Read selections |
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| "Else
Lasker-Schüler's poems
are small red fires of passion in a time of total darkness. At
great cost, she rescued her innocence from the brutality of the
nazi age and tested the resilience of her Jewish soul. In these
translations, Janine Canan renders into English both the lyrical
intensity of that endeavor, and the palpable danger and mystery
that made it possible. This is travel at root-level." —Andrei
Codrescu, author "Through Janine Canan's translations & this beautifully arranged & illuminated book, we get the best glimpse yet of one of the key figures in the early transformative poetry of the century now ending. Else Lasker-Schüler was an extraordinary & "unerringly" original poet - "the greatest lyric poet Germany ever had," Gottfried Benn had called her, "[one] who took the grand and reckless liberty of being totally in charge of herself, a liberty without which there can be no art."—Jerome Rothenberg, author "Canan offers a rare and unexpected blessing of a poet who shares a deep affinity for another poet and is able to translate her work from one language into another without erasing those essences structuring the original texts. Her translations are impeccable—and never fail to touch me by their poignant strength and wise muscle."—David Meltzer, author "One of the year's 'must get' books….A rescued classic." —Hugh Fox, Small Press Review Book Sense 76, Independent Booksellers Association |
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THE RHYME OF THE AG-ED MARINESS: LAST POEMS OF LYNN LONIDIER  |
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| Editor,
Station Hill Press, Barrytown NY, 2000, 112 pages, $13. Available from bookstores, online booksellers and Janine Canan. "Strength, courage, humour and magical word weaving are long time characteristics of Lynn Lonidier’s poetry. This remarkable book brings together her last writings "Lynn
Lonidier’s last poems take the reader on a wild ride
into a rich, multi-leveled world of wit, beauty, and breath-taking
linguistic abundance. Her best are reminiscent of a Joyce
gone lesbian and lyrical, yet at the same time the originality
of her voice—particularly her experiments in Spanglais—place
her firmly in the uniquely bilingual, rapturously political
landscape of fin de siecle San Francisco." —Mary
Mackey, novelist |
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SHE RISES LIKE THE SUN: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets  |
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| The
Crossing Press, Freedom CA, 1989, 226 pages, $22. Out of print, after selling over 10,000 copies, but a few last copies are available from Janine Canan. "One of the best books to come from the Women's Spirituality Movement."—Booklist. Susan Koppelman Award for best-edited feminist work. Columbia University Granger Selection. |
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HER MAGNIFICENT BODY New & Selected Poems  |
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| Manroot
Press, San Francisco CA, 1986, 107 pages, $9. Available from Janine Canan and amazon.com. "Whether naturalist, surrealist, mythic or imagistic, the finely attuned sense Janine Canan displays of the inner relation between self and the other has made her unique in the art of verbal portraiture."—Gary Gach, San Francisco Review of Books |
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SHAPES OF SELF  |
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| Prose
poems, Emily Dickinson Press, Berkeley, CA, 1982, 109 pages,
$9, Available from Janine Canan. "Janine speaks beautifully from ‘solitude to solitude’, as well as from the point of view of ‘All That Is’." —Jack Foley, KPFA Berkeley SHAPES OF SELF "Told with the lulling, incantatory charm of The Arabian Nights. A joyous and lusty book."— Andrei Codrescu, The Baltimore Sun "Remarkable—searing—portraits."—Elsa Gidlow. author "The language is stunning." —Phyllis Koestenbaum, poet |
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DAUGHTER  |
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| Poetry
illustrated by Donna Brookman Emily Dickinson Press, Berkeley Ca, 1981, 43 pages. $9. Available from Janine Canan. |
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WHO BURIED THE BREAST OF DREAMS  |
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| Emily
Dickinson Press, Berkeley CA, 1981, 45 pages. $9. Includes Pushcart Prize nominee poem. Available from Janine Canan. "Distinguished poems."—James Laughlin, Publisher & Poet "Absolutely excellent."—David Meltzer, poet |
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OF YOUR SEED  |
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| Oyez
Press, Berkeley CA, 1977, 60 pages, $9. Canan's first book, published through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Available from Janine Canan. "In the best of these poems the language is both skilled and emphatic, touching its subjects like a soft, revealing light."—Richard Silberg, Poetry Flash |
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