Bücher veröffentlicht von Ritona

RITONA is pleased to announce the publication of And If I Go With Child? : Re-imagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin, by poet Charlotte Hussey.'His boneless fingers bendto conjure newborn shapesfrom perturbed clouds of matter,a slippery, pink brood they fallall around, or from me?I wake, hands crossedover my heart.'Through twenty-seven poems, Charlotte Hussey explores the initiatory potential of the ancient Scottish faery story, "The Ballad of Tam Lin."The ballad tells the tale of a woman's haunting encounter with a figure trapped by the Faerie Queen. In And If I Go With Child?, Charlotte Hussey becomes the story itself, and speaks beautifully in her poems of the power of redemptive love.

RITONA is pleased to announce the publication of Kaleidoscopic Forests, a collection of 56 poems from Danish animist and poet, Rune Kjær Rasmussen."Imagine all the language you do not know about.Hibernating everywhere around the world. Or in full speed. The clawsand the paws and the grabbers. The elements. Sunshine finding its way to a snout, a pinecone, a beetle. What kind of word is an animal to give to so many?"Startling, playful, and profound insights drip from every leaf of Rasmussen's work, refracting the everyday into an explosion of dazzling meaning.

From Alice Fulmer comes a collection of poems lushly vulnerable and soul-shakingly sensual. As with the best magical realism, her poems reveal just past arid city streets a sudden swell of verdant life.

In ancient myths from throughout the world, the appearance of a white deer presages a warning, leads humans to crucial crossroads, and points us to a gate to better understanding our our relationship to the world. Also, throughout history and in science, the white deer has been a sign of imbalance, impending peril, and also profound moments of opening and transformation.In The White Deer: Ecospirituality and the Mythic, Melinda Reidinger chases the white deer down mythic paths and startling (and sometimes shocking) tracks. From the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand to the blue blood of horseshoe crabs, "monstrous" ladies and fallen knights to Magyar star-myths and desert forests, The White Deer speaks to a relationship with the living world we've forgotten but can learn to find again.Deeply researched and densely rich with details from science, history, myth, and dream, and written with a warmly engaging voice, Melinda Reidinger's opus also features the haunting interior illustration work of James Hutton and a foreword by Gordon White.

RITONA Press is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Courting The Wild Queen, by poet, herbalist, and mystic Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue. "Just as a god might be the mind that arises from a forest, a river, a planet or a cluster of galaxies, so too each person's consciousness is a collective consciousness born of the matter and energy that make up our beings."Courting The Wild Queen is a deeply poetic exploration of the ancient and modern world through the mythic and the ecological. Mycelium networks spreading their tangled threads of meaning beneath the forest floor reveal to the reader our own tapestries of meaning, while the ancient lore of Irish Kings and Queens of Land unveil the lost-but recoverable-centers of human existence.

"The Book of Onei is not The Book," my father once said. I remember him still, walking beside me on that sunless beach-but was it before he had died, or after? "The Book of Onei is only a guide, a book of riddles that don''t always lead to any answers, a book of truths within lies. I have been to Onei many times, but I have never been to any of the cities or nations mentioned in the Book of Onei, nor have I seen their ruins, nor met their citizens. As far as I can tell they do not exist, and most likely they never existed-not even in Onei.""Then what is the Book of Onei?" I asked him. "Is it just a fraud?""The Book of Onei is both a key and a lock," he said. His face was haunted, as if he always listened and always waited-perhaps for a footfall. "Those stories mean something, but I do not know what. The Book of Onei hints at something, but I am afraid to ask."From Christopher Scott Thompson (author of Pagan Anarchism and If In Ruins We Must Live) comes The Book of Onei, an antinomian dream grimoire. The Book of Onei is a rare work of myth that is simultaneously fantasy and a ritual guide to your own dreaming.