SIGNED with inscription to a friend by poet. Royal octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine white pictorial dj. Giftable. These poems recount a journey to India to meet a great meditation teacher, but they are for anyone who has ever longed for internal peace.

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Title: Small Claims, Large Encounters, Poems
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : Brito & Lair, 1995
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0964623005
ISBN 13: 9780964623002
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Book Type: Book

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These poems are based on a journey to India to meet a spiritual master. They are at once lyrical, humorous, and honest and called "defiantly radiant" by Diana Hume George in The Spoon River Poetry Review. Celebrated for their craft as well as their spiritual insight, the poems in Small Claims point to the ultimate mystical experience of silence--a silence explored by the Interspiritual writer Lynda Terry in her essay, "Speak Me Into Silence," a line from the end poem "Mystical Discourse" in Small Claims, included in Mature Interspirituality: Wayne Teasdale's Nine Elements--and Beyond (Sacred Feet, 2017). Gorgeous photographic illustrations in black and white from different parts of India share intimate reflections of this poetic journey.

About the Author

As Dr. Sonya Jones, English Professor, this scholar-poet was called, "the humorist of the Krishnamurti set." After shifting her scholarly focus to Comparative World Religions and taking Sannyas in Ganeshpuri, India in 2012, she was referred to as a "female Huston Smith." As the head of Sacred Feet Yoga, Sw. Shraddhananda or Mataji has students who live all over the United States and in England. She is known worldwide for her integrity. Small Claims is the first of a three-volume series entitled The Guru Sutras.

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