Soulspeak The Outward Journey of the Soul
Review Soulspeak offers us all an opportunity to know ourselves better and experience life in a more meaningful way. -- Bernie Siegel, MD, author Love, Medicine & Miracles and Prescriptions For Living Product Description This book/CD combination describes an innovative therapeutic poetry developed from ancient tribal poetic forms. The text covers historical background, techniques, and applications. The CD contains recordings of spontaneous oral poetry spoken by at-risk children and adults in therapy taught by the author to express deep emotions through seed words and the echoed responses of a partner. About the Author Justin Spring is a nationally recognized poet whose work has been published in such distinguished periodicals as American Poetry Review and Passages North as well as numerous anthologies such as Signs of Life and Florida in Poetry. Mr. Spring was educated at Columbia College and is the recipient of many prizes and honors including the 1997 State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. He is the author of five collections of written poetry: Polaroid Poems, Other Dancers, Talkies, Nursery Raps, and Mirrors. Mr. Spring has also recorded seven CD collections of oral poetry: Gathering, Smoke, Nursery Raps, Speakings, In Your Mind, Witnesses Log, Im Talking to You Oprah, and Barbeque. Mr. Spring has created several video documentaries, among them Spirit of Life Speaking Across the Generations and SOULMASK. As a visual artist, Mr. Spring specializes in Xerox photography collages. Collections of them are frequently on exhibit and a popular selection is contained in the art/poetry book, SOULPRINTS. Mr. Spring is the founder of SOULSPEAK/Sarasota Poetry Theatre, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing poetry back into the everyday lives of everyday people. He is the originator, along with Scylla Liscombe, of SOULSPEAK, a simplified version of ancient oral antiphonal poetry that allows anyone to express his or her emotions in a beautiful, healing, and human way. Mr. Spring is also the originator of a special form of SOULSPEAK used for therapeutic purposes. Over 3000 at-risk children and adults in therapy have participated in this program. Mr. Springs extensive paper on the results of this program: Therapeutic SOULSPEAK: The Use of Ancient Oral Poetry Forms in Therapy has been published by NAPT- Journal of Poetry Therapy. Mr. Spring is also the author of SOULSPEAK: The Outward Journey of the Soul. This ground-breaking CD/book combination is intended for anyone interested in attaining the deep spiritual expression possible through SOULSPEAK. It begins by examining the earliest form of poetry, sometimes called tribal, or oral, antiphonal poetry, and gives a series of techniques for re-awakening our inborn ability to speak that poetry. The author also examines contemporary poetry through the lens of this ancient poetry. A considerable section is devoted to understanding the art of Homer and the nature and emergence of rap and why the two are sometimes close enough to kiss.