Synopsis
The Temple of Warm Harmony is a book of poems, but it is also something of a map. Some of the poems are about the author, some are about the reader, while other poems are about the times we're all living through. A blend of mini-exorcisms, healing incantations, dreams, and invitations to numinous ways of observing and experiencing life, the book is divided into three parts: In the World of Red Dust, Heartbreak and Armoring, and Entering The Temple of Warm Harmony. On the heels of his award-winning first book of poetry, The School of Soft-Attention, poet Frank LaRue Owen invites "fellow travelers" to consider ways we can regain a sense of harmony even while navigating challenging terrain, personally and collectively.
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About the Author
Frank LaRue Owen's poetry is influenced by the teachings embedded within dreams, the seasons, various landscapes, and the soul's journey, resulting in a poetic path his late teacher referred to as deep-mapping of unseen reality.
In addition to his own practice of Zen, he studied for a decade with a New Mexican wise woman who blended contemplative practice, dreamwork, and nature spirituality rooted in the forests, arroyos, and mountains of the American Southwest. The practice of poetry was inseparable from this path--along with lots of green chiles and pan-fried tortillas.
Owen also studied eco-literature and eco-poetry with the late Jack Collom, a poet and professor in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
In the Spring of 2017, his first book of poetry, The School of Soft-Attention, was selected as the winner of the 2017 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize. The book was released by Homebound Publications a year later.
In late 2018, one of the poems from The School of Soft-Attention, The Bouquet of the Last Direction, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Owen's second book of poetry, The Temple of Warm Harmony, will be released on August 6, 2019 by Homebound Publications.
He is completing a third book of poetry.
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