Quickwater Oracles: Conversations & Meditations

Review\n"While some of the book's philosophical subjects are deep, most of the poems are infused with a sense of playfulness, wonder, and joy.... This slow build toward jubilance appears in multiple poems, making the collection crackle with energy.... The book's more imagery-centered poems, with their visual descriptions, are spectacular: "You have affinity with starlight - cool, clear, effervescent - the light of truth, clarity. And with the void, / darkness soft as 'Ohi'a cat's fur...." Quickwater Oracles is an inspiring, thought-provoking collection of spiritual poetry that will carry the heart, mind, and soul toward broader, more open horizons. Foreword Reviews August 2021\n"In this philosophical, nature-minded collection of free verse, poet Thompson (Whale Fall & Black Sage) shares ... conversations with ... dolphins, bears, water, birds, faeries ....These voices encourage Thompson to write, remind her to find joy in the world around her, and push her to reconsider her sense of her self as isolated....Readers open to paranormal insights will enjoy Thompson's idiosyncratic, unconventional poems and her mind-bending exploration of what the world could look like with some creative reorienting. Takeaway: This joyful collection of free verse poses challenging alternative views of nature and humanity in a compact, unique style. Publishers Weekly (Booklife 11/08/2021)\n"... should be considered for any literary collection, [and] a recommended pick for philosophy, self-help, and creative writers and readers, as well. The fervor of its voice, the unconventional pieces that eschew propriety for passion, and the many insights into personal power and integrity that wind through these reflections are poignant, revealing, and powerful. Ideally, Quickwater Oracles will reach a wide, diverse audience with its rich, joyful channeling of nature, purpose, and spiritual, spirited reflections." - Midwest Book Review, Donovan's Bookshelf, October 2021\n"In a new collection of 101 vivid channelings, a published poet shares the communication she receives from the natural world: from beings real and fantastic, plants, water, stars, and the land.... Each piece reinforces that everything is connected, that living in the moment is enough, that love for oneself and all things will bring joy, which is the natural state of the Universe. - BlueInkReview, August 2021\n"Reading Ruth Thompson feels like reading Rumi or Lakshminkara or Julian of Norwich. Rich, free, joyful, Quickwater Oracles expands me. Do I understand channeling? No. Yet whenever I return to Quickwater I find myself happy in ways I can't explain. Read it. You'll never be the same. " - Mary Johnson, author of An Unquenchable Thirst\nWhen award-winning poet Ruth Thompson decided to learn to channel in 2018, she wanted to deepen the intuitive connections with nature that inspired her poetry. The skeptical product of a scientific family, she did not expect the doors to fly open to a vast multitude of birds, trees, faeries, dragons, and a host of other nonphysical beings. "Quickwater Oracles," Thompson's record of their channeled conversations - expansive, uninhibited, tender, hilarious - will be published by Two Fine Crows Books in December, 2021.
Conscious channeling involves intentionally connecting and communicating with nonphysical fields of consciousness. Thompson's poetic gifts make her translations of energy communications so vivid that for the reader it is almost like experiencing them in person.
Although she began in despair at the state of the world, these messages were filled with exuberant celebration. As one of the channels says: "We say, change your spectacles to joy. To joy!"
Inspiring yet unsentimental, Quickwater Oracles can be used for daily meditation, journaling, and discussion, or read as one woman's channeling journey. Readers who loved Ross Gay's "The Book of Delights," Aimee Nezhukumatathil's "World of Wonders," and Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Mor