Forty Days In the Wilderness, Wandering by Megan Muthupandiyan

$21.99

 

“The poetry of spiritual hunger and devotion is so rare in our 24/7 news cycle/social media age but just what we need at this chaotic Anthropocene moment.  That Megan Muthupandiyan would recognize the retreat-like possibilities of the 2020 Covid lockdown demonstrates impeccable perception and priorities, but what’s most satisfying is to read these gorgeous poems of a fellow seeker who uses her tradition (and this moment in time) to move toward “the death of certainty” and to a resacralization of nature.  May it be so.  
–Paul E. Nelson, SPLAB Founder, author of A Time Before Slaughter and American Sentences)
 

“Forty Days In the Wilderness, Wandering catches and holds the heart with a delicate deftness. Meg Muthupandiyan has crafted a luminously beautiful collection of images and words which guides us gently into a series of meditations on nature, on our place in the world, and with each other. As the dates unfold one by one, we know what lies ahead. We have already been drawn into these quietly considered and beautifully observed Lenten reflections before the pandemic begins – the Covid-induced isolation allows Meg to delve even more deeply into her intimate journey through nature and self. This is a collection of cumulative beauty, power and perception – each image, each line becoming a meditation for the reader and providing a delicate delineation of what is often seen but rarely considered. Forty Days In the Wilderness, Wandering is a journey of the personal and the universal; a moving meditation and powerful reflection on our place in a changing world.”

–Anne McMaster, author of the forthcoming Walking off the Land (Hedgehog Poetry Press))

 
Meg Muthupandiyan‘s Forty Days In the Wilderness, Wandering. poems of a Lenten quarantine is a set of incantory daily meditations in the course of her daily walks during the pandemic year of 2020, seeking the Beloved in the spirit of Rumi and the Catholic faith of her childhood. These poems of intimate connection with spirit, the natural world, and her friends and family are accompanied by the poet’s own daily mandalas of artwork. Intense, searching, and celebratory, the poet records love, connection, and loss: “Betelgeuse burns red in/ the hunter’s shoulder,” “every quotidian moment/ has become more beautiful, more sacred,” “the wilding of a wood/blue-branded by snow,” and we are privileged to read her meditations on her search. Muthupandiyan gives us a double report of her rich interior life in her words and drawings. 
–Robin Chapman, poet, painter, and author of The Only Home We Know (Tebot Bach).
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Forty Days In the Wilderness, Wandering

by Megan Muthupandiyan

$21.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-64662-605-2

2021

An illustrated journal of contemplative poems written through the Lenten Quarantine of 2020, Forty Days in the Wilderness, Wandering explores the search for God and human connection within the deeper wilderness — and time of spiritual formation — the world was entering at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Meg Muthupandiyan is a poet, artist, and educator. A 2019 Fellow at the Poetry Foundation’s Teacher’s Institute, she is passionate about creating space for people to contemplate art, poetry, and the natural world, both in and beyond the classroom.  She is the founder of the Poetry in the Parks project (poetryintheparks.org), which explores the sacred beauty of our land communities through collaboratively created poetry films.

Meg Muthpandiyan‘s poems and illustrations have appeared in various print and online journals, including Chitro Magazine,  Great Lakes Review, Bent Paddle Press, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Stone Highway Review, Chicago Literati, and Wisconsin Poetry Journal.  

Her work has been included in a number of public poetry projects, including the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project, Verse Wisconsin’s Poetry Jumps off the Shelf Verse-o-Matic Poetry Project, and Seattle Poetry Lab’s annual Postcard Poetry Exchange.

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