Facing the Sweating Horse

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Facing the Sweating Horse

By (author): Calvin White

Facing the Sweating Horse is a collection of poems written from the perspective that the foundation of life is connection and, thus, the purpose of life is to recognize that connection. Our connectedness resides in how we share each moment, whether we notice that moment or not. ‘We’ means not only our fellow humans–all with the same bodies and emotions and dreams–but all of our fellow species, and the rocks and the water, the air and the light, that grace our finite days. Both lithe and wise, Facing the Sweating Horse is to face life in its most trembling, revealing form.

AUTHOR

Calvin White

Calvin White has worked as a high school mental health counselor for thirty years. A prolific writer, his previous works include the non-fiction titles The Secret Life of Teenagers and Letters from the Land of Fear as well as the poetry collections The Bodies and Other Political Poems and We Run Faster with the Deer. He lives in Salmon Arm, B.C.