American Prophets: Interviews with Thinkers, Activists, Poets and Visionaries

A book of sixteen interviews taken from the best of over 600 conducted by Seattle poet Paul E Nelson. The book includes an A-List of luminaries who have dedicated their professional careers to deep, positive changes through a focus on whole-systems thinking and activation of creative approaches so individuals and society flourish. Grouped in three segments: Thinkers/Activists: Gloria DeGaetano, Rupert Sheldrake, Jean Houston, Larry Dossey, M.D. Poets: Jerome Rothenberg, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Sam Hamill, Michael McClure, Wanda Coleman, Brenda Hillman and Nathaniel Mackey and Technicians of the Sacred: Phyllis Curott, Bhagavan Das, E.Richard Atleo and Beaver Chief, the interviews show the way to a more just, healthy, creative and sustainable future.

Author: Paul E. Nelson
Publisher: Splab!
Published: 03/01/2019
Pages: 310
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780692035771

About the Author
Nelson, Paul E.: - Paul Nelson is the founder of SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival and serves as Founding Director. SPLAB was founded in 1993, has produced hundreds of poetry events and has created over 600 hours of interview programming with many legendary poets and whole systems activists and theorists including Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Diane di Prima, Daphne Marlatt, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Brenda Hillman, Jean Houston, Riane Eisler, Larry Dossey, Father Matthew Fox and many others. Paul is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia, lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion's Cedar River watershed with Bhakti Watts and his daughter Ella Roque and serves as literary executor for the late poet Sam Hamill.