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Books and Tapes by Monza Naff
Conscientious Objections
What must a person say "no" to in order to
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Total for Tape by Priority Mail - $13.50 |
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Total for CD by Priority Mail - $17.50 |
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| With watercolor illustrations
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The poems of Exultation act as shofars to the soul, calling upon us to remember: to feel, sense, know in our very beings that we are connected through our cycles to all that is alive…. Read these words aloud. Chant, sing, intone them and experience a spirit that comforts and quiets, uplifts and inspires all at the same time. This quartet is a masterpiece. —Vicki Dello Joio, Chi Kung Master Teacher, Founder of the Way of Joy
Exultation by Monza Naff speaks to people who love poetry, think
they hate poetry, and have never read poetry before but who like to learn
through looking at pictures!
The poems in Exultation are also published in the collection Healing
the Womanheart by Monza Naff.
This quartet of poems, on the surface prayers to and about the seasons in a year, also explores the seasons of people’s lives— humanity’s deeper cycles of despair and exultation, doubt and faith, death and life, seasons all humans know but often fail to honor.
Drawing upon Taoist principles, Monza Naff’s quartet captures the continuous movement of life and the heart in nature. The poems are lyrical, wise, honest, and hopeful. They bespeak a woman who lives fully and sees clearly what most of us fail to see. Reading these poems is like traveling to our hometown with an artist who draws pictures of the place that suddenly help us see our home as if for the first time.
The collaborative effect of poetry and art is stunning in this unique chapbook. Exultation becomes a treasured little book for reading again and again, a resource for meditation, an exquisite gift for anyone in transition, marking a milestone, or committed to growth.
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The CD and tape of Exultation both contain inspiring meditations
for each of the cycles we go through. While these cycles energetically
correspond to external seasons, they may occur at any time in our own
lives. They are cycles that involve: loss and letting go, hibernation
and deep internal contemplation, breaking through into a new cycle, and
feeling the fullness of life. Each of these meditations is a rich source
of inspiration and guide to both transitions and healing.
The seasons perfecting the woman who prays, the woman who prays perfecting the seasons – these poems by Monza Naff inspire hope and humility that reverberate in our senses like bell tones. —Ann Jauregui, Ph.D., Co-Founder of Marin Creek (Multidisciplinary Healing) Center, and Faculty, School of Clinical Psychology, John F. Kennedy University
These poems of Exultation are the modern ode at its best and provide a deep well of reassurance for all who hope for healing. —Marjorie D. Lewis, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Texas Christian University
These poetic prayers express the classically tragic feeling of life, that life moves toward both endings and new beginnings, toward death and new life. Where Ecclesiastes saw that while “there is time for all things” yet “all is vanity and striving after the wind,” Naff sees within the transitoriness of life the promise of fulfillments in the eternal now, “until I recognize eternity in single breaths….” —Glenn Routt, D.D.,Professor Emeritus of Theology, Brite Divinity School
For more information on Exultation, please visit the publisher's website.
Total for Book by Priority Mail - $15.45 |
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Total for Tape by Priority Mail - $13.50 |
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Total for CD by Priority Mail - $17.50 |
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Monza has a very big heart, so big it must burst open and like a flower
spread its seeds. This is the impulse behind her poems: the act of giving,
sharing, linking hands; imagining, and making believable, the kind of
life we would like to live.
—Mimi Khalvati, Director of the Poetry School in London
Healing the Womanheart is a collection of poems about the process of
healing and empowerment women undertake when we fully come to terms with
ourselves -- our life's legacy, the illusions we have cherished or combated,
and the private and public rituals that bring us solace and joy.
The three sections correspond to what Monza Naff believes are the major
phases in a woman's healing: first, we must claim all we have inherited
and experienced; then we need to expose the illusions our culture, our
families, and we ourselves have held onto; and, finally, intentionally
and carefully, we can heal our hearts through rituals, times of focused
attention, that transform and empower us.
As Monza Naff has given public readings from this work, women of all ages
and backgrounds (as well as a number of men) resonate with its stories,
images, and candor, and they have spoken repeatedly of never before seeing
a collection of poems outline their own process of recovery and growth
at the same time it so clearly describes one woman's journey.
This is a collection that will hold appeal both for people who love carefully
crafted poetry and people who are committed to personal growth.
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A work of courage, challenge and joy . . . In these poems Monza takes
up the inconsolable suffering of the world and transforms them into song.
—Mara Faulkner, OSB, Ph.D., Associate professor of English,
College of St. Benedict
Healing the Womanheart is for lovers of poetry who rejoice in
words woven with skills and precision, variety in form and wit. But since
all hearts have known wounds, the collection is for all of us even if
it shold be the first book of poetry we own.
—Marjorie D. Lewis, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Texas Christian
University
The kindest poetry a heart could imagine — this
is indeed a book of healing.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, Author
For information on Healing the Womanheart, please visit the publisher's website.
Total for Book by Priority Mail - $18.45 |
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Total for Excerpts on Tape by Priority Mail - $13.50 |
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Total for Full Length Book on Tape by Priority Mail - $32.50 |
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Total for Full Length Book on CD by Priority Mail - $17.50 |
The text that follows is written on the back of this selection of tapes and CDs, along with a small photo of each.
Monza Naff, whose art, spirituality and politics unite in this book, shows us ways to be more conscious, more awake, more passionate in our commitment to justice and peace. Her prophetic work embodies the assertion made by the acclaimed Japanese filmmaker, Akiro Kurosawa: "To be an artist means never to avert ones eyes.
"She has the uncommon courage neither to look away nor to lose heart."
—Mara Faulkner, OSB,Ph.D. Associate Professor of English,
College of St. Benedict
The three sections correspond to what Monza Naff believes are the major phases in a woman's healing: first, we must claim all we have inherited and experienced; then we need to expose the illusions our culture, our families, and we ourselves have held onto; and, finally, intentionally and carefully, we can heal our hearts through rituals, times of focused attention, that transform and empower us.
These are poems of compassion, solidarity, and survival; these are poems that women long to read. —Mary K. DeShazer, Ph.D., Professor of Women's Studies and English, Wake Forest Univ.
This exquisite tape affirms the particular gifts not only of each season in a year, but also in the recurring cycles in the life of a human spirit. Drawing upon Taoist principles, Monza Naff's quartet captures the continuous movement of life and the heart in Nature. The guided meditations on the tape calm the mind and uplift the spirits.
The poems of Exultation act as shofars to the soul, calling upon us to remember, to feel, sense, know in our very beings that we are connected through our cycles to all that is alive . . . Read these words aloud. Chant, sing, intone them and experience a spirit that comforts and quiets, uplifts and inspires all at the same time. This quartet is a masterpiece. —Vicki Dello Joio, Chi Kung Master Teacher, Founder of Way of Joy
For more information about and praise for each of these tapes, see the book, tape, and CD descriptions above.
Total by Priority Mail - $32.50 |
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