Tiger Stripes: Poems of Shadow and Light
We’re celebrating Court’s newly published book of mystical poems, Tiger Stripes: Poems of Shadow and Light.
Publisher: Human Error Publishing (thanks, Paul!)
Order your copy today!
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Please make checks for $16/book, payable to “Court Dorsey”, and mail to 121 Montague Road, Wendell MA 01379.
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Books are available for $18 on Amazon.
A positive review there would be much appreciated!
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Please contact me if you’d like to order books in bulk, request a reading or performance, or have other questions related to Tiger Stripes.
Hello friends,
Over the years, I have created many written pieces: some for the theater, a few short stories, shreds of memoir, short prose pieces, “dark rhymies” (some of which have become songs), a novel (in the works), and any number of poems.
Many of these are what I call mystical or philosophical poems. Some are humorous or ironic, others describe states of consciousness that feel especially significant, in still others I try to “write my way through” dilemmas and existential befuddlements, and many are attempts to integrate spiritual practices that I have found valuable.
Tiger Stripes: Poems of Shadow and Light is a new collection of these mystical poems.
A few highlights …
An invocation to “Whitman, Ginsberg and Blake” (You lambs and junkies of the long prophetic Soul, / with your grass, your sunflowers and your sutras, / like eagles in Jerusalem you touch down. You screech / and proclaim the new world.)
A quirky meditation on the nature of creation and our place in it, “Bob Bliss in Technicolor”
A collection of 21 sonnets, “The Twelve Mysteries,” based on the author’s pilgrimage to India
“Her Mystic Path,” a long poem weaving mythologies and practices from the Hindu, Christian, Buddhist and Twelve Step traditions.
Table of Contents
Author’s Bio
“But it's the Toad poems where things break open,” writes Beau O’Reilly, Chicago playwright and frequent contributor to the popular radio series, This American Life. The Toad Series comes from the author’s work with a Sonoran Desert shaman and traces the experience in vivid imagery and musical language.
(Toad had a memory of colors from a world long ago. / He dribbled them like mollusk shells into the emptiness, / so they rose and fell on waves, that were probably there already, before we could see them. / Toad spread the colors with a brush made from the wings of flies, tied together at the stems with spider silk.)
“These poems seem to come from a newly discovered ancient Hindu text, or the Grimms’ Fairy Tales,” O’Reilly adds. “If you delight in poetry and find that well-made poems strengthen your mind and heart, these poems are for you.”