GNOSIS PRESS

Paperback, 130 pages, including seven full color photographs by Stacy Cox. Author’s proceeds benefit Forest Voices of India, a 501(c)(3) organization that raises funds for children, animals, and the preservation of sacred forests in India. $25

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September 27, 2025

Our first published title is a book of poetry by Sharon St Joan, a poet of mystical nature, of ancient worlds and undying deities. St Joan beckons us to enter a realm where the eternal and the ephemeral echo in the mists of time. “The world will fade,” she writes, “to become the yuga that is the eon that is the age that is the cycle of return for the ending is the beginning and the pathway is the circle.” If we stop to listen, we hear:

In the silence
Beyond the dissonance
Of this world, only the bells of Shiva
Ringing in the ever-drifting rain,
Singing.

It may seem that a book of poetry has no place in this age of crisis, this Kali Yuga of burning forests, raging wars, and crumbling institutions. But it is precisely–perhaps only–at the unveiling that we can finally see what the poets have always tried to show us. “Only our eyes,” Rilke wrote, “are turned backward . . . Never, not for a single day, do we have before us that pure space into which flowers endlessly open.” Yet “nearing death, one doesn’t see death, but stares beyond, perhaps with an animal’s vast gaze.”* St Joan says “fear not.”

*Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, translated by Stephen Mitchell, Vintage 2009