Between Birdsong and Boulder follows the arc of life on Earth personified by Gaia – her birth, her nurturing presence, her tenacity, her ultimate fate. Running through this collection are hints of transcendence beyond scientific paradigm and religious doctrine. It gives new voice to the mythological concept of Gaia, animating her into her rightful place in the collective unconscious.
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Contents:
Prologue – Will You Come, Too?
Prelude: So It Goes
Section 1: Who Grapples with Angels and Demons
- Eight poems on the story of humankind from the mythical Garden to the coming of a modern consciousness.
Section 2: From So Simple a Beginning
- Twenty poems on the unfolding of our universe from its origin in the Big Bang through multiple turns of evolution.
Section 3: When Gaia Arises to Cleanse the World
- Ten poems on the growing destruction of our present epoch and Gaia’s eventual recovery in a time beyond the Anthropocene.
Section 4: The Science of Remote Abysses No Longer Shelters Man
- Eight poems exploring the far future, from a time beyond humans to the ends of Earth, the sun, the stars themselves.
Epilogue: Beyond the Elegant Equations
Between Birdsong and Boulder – Poems on the Life of Gaia 