It’s the cover of my new soon-to-be released poetry book! Shining Mead features a TRUE black sun, a total solar eclipse (and not something wrongly thought to be a black sun). This is from the Great American Eclipse of August 2017, which I got to see. Much thanks to Albo Greene for the photo. You can find her work at <albofilm.com> or over on instagram: <instagram.com/albo.film>
What’s in the book? The poetry is quite different from my first two books, Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites and Eagle’s Mead. Yet these are still poems where the gods live, and Óðrœrir, the Mead of Poetry, is a real, vivifying force that flows through both words and worlds. All of my poems are much more personal this time. They include my reflections on the mission for traditional poetry in today’s world, living abroad for grad school, politics, esotericism, rune work, spirituality, trees, depression, love, sex, and more. This is poetry with a message and an orientation toward transcendence: a Traditionalist perspective from seeking the Mysteries and the Grail. And all of it is in modern English versions of traditional Old English and Old Norse alliterative meters.
It’s not poetry for today’s managerial aristocrats (this ain’t MFA poetry!) or bourgeois aristocrats (it’s not mass-market poetry either), but rather poetry for aristocrats of the soul.
But next up, it’s time for for the 💩 to hit the fan. The last time I posted a controversial book cover (almost 7 years ago), people unfriended me, and I got canceled for it! At least this time, if I get canceled again, it’ll be for my own book cover, and not somebody else’s. 😄
The Skaldic Eagle 