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Award-winning writer and psychiatrist, JANINE CANAN is the author of Journeys with Justine, a book of stories; Goddesses, Goddesses, a book of essays; and ten books of poetry, including Changing Woman (Small Press Review “Pick”) and In the Palace of Creation: Selected Works 1969—1999. Her first book of poems, Of Your Seed, received a National Endowment for the Arts publication grant. Janine edited the acclaimed collections, Messages from Amma: In the Language of the Heart (“Best Spiritual Books 2004”), and She Rises like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets (recipient of the 1990 Koppelman Award, “one of the best books to come from the Women’s Spirituality movement," said Booklist). Canan translated Star in My Forehead: Poems by Else Lasker-Schüler, a BookSense "Pick" and a City Lights “Favorite." Her work has been anthologized by Andrei Codrescu, June Cotner, Andrew Harvey, James Laughlin, and numerous others. She graduated from Stanford University with distinction and received her MD from New York University. For further information, visit JanineCanan.com.
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GODDESSES, GODDESSSES
GODDESSES, GODDESSES: Essays by Janine Canan
Award-winning author Janine Canan offers her lyrical reflections on art, nature, history, masculine and feminine, the Great Mother, spirituality and love. Journeying with Canan, we meet Iris Murdoch, Else Lasker-Schüler, Marija Gimbutas, James Broughton, Diane Di Prima, Alma Villanueva, Ali Akbar Khan, Mata Amritanandamayi, and other visionaries of our time.
“Many of these essays are about the friendships of this remarkable woman poet, author and psychiatrist, with an array of cultural luminaries…Canan offers us the gift of encountering these wonders of the human spirit, as if she had arranged a special party of her friends and invited us all to attend.”—Mara Keller, director of Women's Spirituality, California Institute of Integral Studies
“I read Janine Canan’s book of essays…engrossed in her interactions with those who have inspired her…Her insights stunned me…And I loved the quotes from the streams of her gorgeous lyric and prose poetry…Brava!” —Phyllis Koestenbaum, Doris Day & Kitschy Melodies
“I especially enjoyed Canan’s stories of meetings with Iris Murdoch, Amma, and her historical sweep through the poetic renaissance of feminism.” —Ellen Bass, The Human Line
"Canan’s prose is sensuous and startling and precise. Each essay reveals Canan’s personal discoveries that her existance is utterly intertwined with Her… In these essays she has the unique ability to express the ineffable interface she has felt between us and Divine Consciousness." —author Greta von Pein
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JOURNEYS WITH JUSTINE
JOURNEYS WITH JUSTINE is a stunningly original collection of tales describing the adventures and epiphanies of Justine, a contemporary seeker who travels from California to the Olympic Peninsula, New York, France, Bali and India, in search of her Self. On her journey from disillusion to illumination, she encounters artists, lovers and saints, death, Earth and the Goddess. Canan’s sensuous, lyrical and revelatory stories are warmly illustrated by Cristina Biaggi.
“An inspiring and most unusual spiritual novel sparkling with tender irony, sweet humor, and disarming intelligence.” —Christine Mathieu, Leaving Mother Lake
“Reading this book is like savoring a tasty dish. Every sentence, like every bite of a gourmet dinner, is a pleasure. What an impact language has when a poet writes prose!” —Linda Johnsen, Daughters of the Goddess
“Every woman who lived through the Sixties—or wanted to—should read this book.” —Nancy Leatzow, Yoga teacher
"A wonderful, witty, playful, yet penetrating inner travelogue of a brave young woman’s spiritual journey and the people she meets who are the catalysts of her realizations. As you read Justine you feel the divine touch of the scintillating Shakti yourself.' —Carol Fabric, Beginning Saint
“Canan’s stories are light as a feather: lyrical, fresh, unadorned, and often surprising… I didn’t want the book to end.” —Vicki Noble, Shakti Woman
“The Journeys are pure delight—mystical, magical, metaphorical, metaphysical, philosophical, spiritual, inspirational, illuminating, whimsical, poignant, and so beautifully crafted—like a gloriously polished string of pearls.” —Darlene Phillips, lawyer & teacher
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WALK NOW IN BEAUTY
WALK NOW IN BEAUTY: The Legend of Changing Woman
The story of the Navajo Creation Goddess, Changing Woman, by poet Janine Canan, exquisitely illustrated with contemporary "sand paintings" by artist Ernest Posey, 36 pages, $16. Hand-colored copies, signed by author and artist, $36.
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