Böcker av Carolyn Martin

40-Day Journey of Nourishment and Spirituality" is a unique cookbook that transcends the traditional boundaries of culinary arts, inviting readers on a transformative journey that intertwines the nourishment of the body with the enrichment of the soul. Through a collection of carefully curated recipes, each paired with a reflective prayer, this book offers a holistic approach to eating that celebrates the abundance of the earth, the diversity of plant-based cuisine, and the spiritual dimensions of cooking and sharing meals.Designed to be more than just a guide for preparing meals, this cookbook serves as a companion for a 40-day exploration of gratitude, resilience, transformation, and more, providing a moment of reflection and connection with each dish. From vibrant salads to hearty legume stews, each recipe is crafted to be adaptable and inclusive, ensuring that individuals with dietary restrictions or specific nutritional needs can partake in this nourishing journey.Set against the backdrop of a serene outdoor setting, the book's visual narrative invites readers to embrace the beauty of natural ingredients, the joy of cooking with intention, and the communal spirit of dining. Whether you are seeking inspiration for healthy, flavorful meals or looking to deepen your practice of mindfulness and gratitude, "40-Day Journey of Nourishment and Spirituality" offers a path to transform your eating habits, your spiritual well-being, and your appreciation for the world around you.Embark on this journey to discover the profound connections between the food we eat and the spiritual nourishment we seek, and let this cookbook guide you toward a life of abundance, health, and joy.

From the universal to the personal, the formal to the experimental, Carolyn Martin's fourth poetry collection, A Penchant for Masquerades, takes an unflinching look at the fluidity of truth, time, identity, history, death, and relationships. Martin time-travels with Neanderthals, Lucy, and Big Foot to 9/11 to the future collapse of a holographic universe. She mines scientific discoveries, nursery rhymes, biblical characters, and the works of Issa, Horace, Yeats, Frost, Williams, Szymborska, and Collins in poems that are both playful and thought-provoking. Since she believes reincarnation is a distinct possibility, she suggests that death need not be taken too seriously ("Re-Entry Interview," "A Case for Sudden Death"). She riffs on an Issa haiku ("Thoughts on a Translation"), sits down to dinner with Horace ("Notes from a Water Drinker"), and promises literary revenge on a reviewer who negatively critiques this collection ("To the Reviewer Who Missed Too Much"). Martin's forms run the gamut from sonnets, haiku, and pantoums to free verse, found poetry, and paratactic poems whose stanzas can be read in any order. A lover of language, she builds poems based on one word ("Phonaethetics," "Disambiguation," "Stirring"), and delights in re-stitching the words of others in surprising ways ("Variations on Final Words," "10 Variations on the 50 Most Quoted Lines of Poetry," "90+ Titles Appropriated from Poetry 180 Hosted by Billy Collins"). A lover of all things poetic, Martin has created an eclectic collection for readers who have a penchant for words and who are open to believing in everything and nothing.