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Transcendentalism embodies the concept that people have a deeper and more profound understanding of the world around them than simply by what they can glimpse with their senses. In this collection of essays and poems, the works of three transcendentalist authors are shared, each with their own impressions and opinions supporting the movement.

An “extraordinary” (Laurie Halse Anderson) young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in West Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally herself, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood throughout American history...

Walking Home to Humboldt is a poetic journey through the space-time of unspoken thoughts, dreams, and memories, revealed in love letters about home as read by the author. The bewitching beauty of Humboldt County, in Northern California, has inspired countless artists; its deep forests of redwoods, creeping mists, and the slate-gray waters of the Pacific Ocean set the perfect landscape for unexpressed soul. This is a book of poetry about homecoming and good-byes. It is of heartbreak and triumph, celebration, and bittersweet resignation.

Adam Scott Campbell survived a life-threatening brain tumor at age nine that recurred as a young adult. When thereafter he faced death again, he was ready for heaven. Instead, heaven came to him. Visited by his Angel, she filled him with the strength, courage, hope, and life to continue on with a purpose--to share that we are never alone and that we are stronger than we know.

The Walking Conjure Woman details a spiritual gifted woman being put out and told to walk in the streets when men are done using her for their entertainment.

In this collection of prayers for Lent, RW Walker explores what difference traditional, queer, and Christ-centered common prayer might make in a chaotic and divided world, a wilderness that seems so filled with death and despair.