{"id":32791,"date":"2024-09-20T20:12:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T00:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/margaretharrell.flywheelsites.com\/books\/particle-pinata-poems-messages-to-the-earth-guides-initiations-word-play-in-partnership-with-the-spirit-world\/"},"modified":"2024-09-30T16:22:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T20:22:42","slug":"particle-pinata-poems-messages-to-the-earth-guides-initiations-word-play-in-partnership-with-the-spirit-world","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/margaretharrell.com\/books\/particle-pinata-poems-messages-to-the-earth-guides-initiations-word-play-in-partnership-with-the-spirit-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Particle Pinata Poems: Messages to the Earth, Guides, Initiations, Word Play, in Partnership with the Spirit World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-right:0px;--awb-padding-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:95.68%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>The Particle Pi\u00f1ata collection spans over forty years of Life tackled from the heart. The genesis emerged when, living in Morocco in 1980, Margaret Ann Harrell began recording her dreams. And they poured in, introducing her to \u201cimage trails.\u201d She was in deep contact with the unconscious. In it resided this poet, a \u201csecond-class citizen\u201d of herself. The poet to whom words came easily because after all she was in the unconscious, whereas the conscious prose author struggled, edited, cut, sweated, and was published. No longer is the poet in the closet. Having been a spokesperson for \u201cthe unconscious,\u201d or collective unconscious, before, in this poetry Harrell brings in the transpersonal nature of us all. From after-death communications to stimulating RUMI-nations to metaphysics in \u201ca bottle,\u201d her poems bring puzzles, thought-provoking, with depth. Many are \u201cTo the Earth,\u201d announcing prophetically, in the 1980s, the upheaval we are seeing today. True to the brand of humor of the unconscious, there is a section of brilliant word play, narrating insights about the untold stories of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, the Christ spirit, and the universal Christ consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Harrell\u2019s bold and searching collection takes readers on an odyssey of inquiry, with the first and foremost question being \u201cHow to establish that \/\/ Yes, I am \/\/ One with God and God is \/\/ One with You.\u201d But rather than provide an answer, Harrell\u2019s poems seek to use the question as a gateway into a thought-space where the act of seeking knowledge results in spiritual transcendence. In a note, Harrell describes her spirituality as a conscious, living thing shaped over time by a series of spiritual events she calls \u201cinitiations,\u201d and through her poetry, Harrell seeks to divulge her spiritual wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>The principle spiritual tenet in \u201cParticle Pi\u00f1ata\u201d is that all knowledge of the universe is united in an ever-shifting entity to which all people contribute and borrow, including the poet\u2019s literary inspirations Baudelaire, Emerson, Whitman, and Joyce, and major figures from the poet\u2019s own life, which include Milton Klonsky and Hunter Thompson. Primarily through the use of pun and other types of wordplay, Harrell\u2019s poems establish linguistic relationships at the micro scale, between syllables in various languages, and at the macro scale, between hers and the works of Joyce and Baudelaire, and likens the behavior of the sacred whole of human knowledge to a mass of subatomic particles in perpetual cycles of unison and collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Touching on religion, philosophy, particle physics, linguistics, and more heady concepts, Harrell\u2019s collection is a cosmic, often esoteric whirlwind which seeks to bring the poet\u2019s conception of a spiritual being to life. The style is pointedly erratic, even at times frenzied; consistent verb tenses, syntax, and connotations are flouted, upended, redefined. Yet there is a certain naturalness to the poetic discord, like the winds of a hurricane or flurry of a meteor shower. Nature is chaotic and unruly and, above all, free\u2014and so are Harrell\u2019s poems.<\/p>\n<p>Takeaway: A cosmic, sophisticated collection that touches on spirituality, philosophy, and physics.<\/p>\n<p>Great for fans of: Milton Klonsky, Delmore Schwartz.<\/p>\n<p>Cover image: Margaret Harrell<br \/>\nCover design: Deborah Perdue<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32805,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[816,815,812],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-32791","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-memoir","portfolio_category-poetry","portfolio_category-spirituality"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Particle Pinata Poems: Messages to the Earth, Guides, Initiations, Word Play, in Partnership with the Spirit World - Margaret A. 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