Particle Pinata Poetry

"The time of the grandmothers, of the nurturing healing feminine energy has arrived. Patriarchy has sewn destruction long enough. We must all, female and male, become healers, seers. In her epic PARTICLE PINATA, author Margaret Ann Harrell stands in direct lineage with the desert mystics, the poet prophets of old and, simultaneously, with the contemporary cutting edge avant-garde. In a whirling dance with the creative forces of the universe Harrell draws explicit and implicit lines to Rumi, Blake, Yeats, Joyce, Jung, and others while forging mystical connections with clouds and coastlines, dancing in the borderlands of space and time, of being and not being, of embracing and letting go. And she accomplishes it all in her own distinctly original poetic voice. Through decades of carrying these poems from continent to continent, Margaret Ann Harrell has continued to add new poems and photos, to edit and revise, to transform her self into an ever evolving being, into this masterpiece book. I can't recommend it highly enough. Go ahead, open the front cover and enter. You'll never be the same."
—Ron Whitehead, U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate

The Particle Piñata collection spans over forty years of Life tackled from the heart. The genesis emerged when, living in Morocco in 1980, Margaret Ann Harrell began recording her dreams. And they poured in, introducing her to “image trails.” She was in deep contact with the unconscious. In it resided this poet, a “second-class citizen” of herself. The poet to whom words came easily because after all she was in the unconscious, whereas the conscious prose author struggled,
edited, cut, sweated, and was published. No longer is the poet in the closet. Having been a spokesperson for “the unconscious,” or collective unconscious, before, in this poetry Harrell brings in the transpersonal nature of us all. From after-death communications to stimulating RUMI-nations to metaphysics in “a bottle,” her poems bring puzzles, thought-provoking, with depth. Many are “To the Earth,” announcing prophetically, in the 1980s, the upheaval we are seeing today. True to the brand of humor of the unconscious, there is a section of brilliant word play, narrating insights about the untold stories of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, theChrist spirit, and the universal Christ consciousness.

Margaret Ann Harrell was born in North Carolina and educated academically at Duke University (BA) and Columbia University (MA). She did postgraduate work at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich (1984-'87), followed by energy studies and investigations that continue to this day. Since, in late 2001, after thirty adventurous years abroad in Morocco and Europe, she moved back to the United States, she has been an advanced-meditation light-body teacher-most recently a luminous-body teacher-in the Orin & DaBen LuminEssence work.Margaret was a copyeditor/assistant editor at Random House, New York City, often to first-book writers who later became prominent, such as Hunter S. Thompson. Introduced to parapsychology by Dr. J. B. Rhine at Duke University, she eventually found a part of her calling in exploring the meaning and boundaries of consciousness/unconsciousness. She is a three-time fellow at MacDowell Colony.Margaret is in demand as a speaker. Most recently, at the launch at the Canessa Gallery in San Francisco in July 2021 of her latest book, The Hell's Angels Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic, in collaboration with Ron Whitehead, US National Beat Poet Laureate. Earlier, she authored the four-volume memoir series Keep This Quiet! (Saeculum University Press 2011-'18). And before that, published in Sibiu, Romania, in English, the seven-volume nonfiction Love in Transition and the Space Encounters series.In cloud photography, exhibited now and then in Romania, Italy, Bruges (Belgium), and New York City, she is fascinated with the sun. Her biography and photographs were also many times in Marquis Who's Who in Modern American Art. For several years she has been a VIP presenter at the Gonzofest (Louisville). Margaret, a longtime freelance book editor, now edits additionally for authors in the Self-Publishing School. For a fuller picture of her, see https: //margaretharrell.com.