Dennis Patrick Slattery's Blog

Dennis’s new book is in the style of his earlier Day-to-Day-Dante: Exploring  Personal Myth Through The Divine Comedy, and Our Daily Breach: Exploring Your Personal Myth Through Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. It allows the reader to read major parts of the epic in groups of 7-9 lines of poetry, then a summary paragraph, followed by a meditation on […]

Selected letters capturing ongoing conversations between famed mythologist Joseph Campbell and a remarkable group of artists, seekers, filmmakers, novelists, and scholars This brand-new collection of letters features illuminating conversations between Joseph Campbell and a fascinating cast of correspondents, ranging from friends and cowriters to renegade scholars and fellow visionaries. Including letters from both Campbell and […]

A poem can massage us in the deepest recesses of our lives. It can call us both down into the realm of what is not visible at first glance, and through the sensate world we inhabit. These two directions form a cross, which is the crux of life itself. ~ Dennis Patrick Slattery This volume […]

A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief is a spiritual narrative of one man’s calling to the life of monastic devotion. It is both an adventure story, in which the author, Dennis Slattery, travels into the world of monastic settings, and a journey into the interior geography of his personal history. We accompany Slattery as he sets off […]

Writing has the capacity to mend some tear in the fabric of our fiction, the storied self that is always plotting its course both within and without. By exposing to the open air of prose what afflicts, wounds, emblazons the scar tissue of resentments, hurts, slights, wrongs, wrong paths chosen, one has the opportunity to […]

Our Daily Breach: Exploring Your Personal Myth Through Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick offers both a way of understanding what has generally been called the greatest novel of the American myth while simultaneously exploring one’s own personal myth. Its added feature is that it is an interactive book in allowing reader’s to meditate on one question per […]

The series of 20 essays explore the spaces between depth psychology, mythology and literature as well as cultural phenomena to reveal where common threads weave the three disciplines to one another. Bridge Work is a form of field work with its intention to set up interactive fields between disciplines for the reader to bridge further [...]

Greetings! This article was printed in New Braunfels’ daily, the Herald-Zeitung on May 30, 2014.

Two volumes of poetry have been combined in this special edition il piccolo publication. “Brian Landis is a master storyteller; Dennis Patrick Slattery a master teacher in the art of writing myth. Both are skillful poets who have teamed to produce this refined volume of poetry. Feathered Ladder speaks brilliantly to me.” —From the Foreword [...]

This collection of essays, written over a period of years, entertains the shared place of psyche and poetics. Dr. Slattery has explored the manner in which the psyche is poetic and how poetry is deeply psycho-mythical. Influenced in part by the archetypal psychologist James Hillman’s idea of the “poetic basis of mind” that comprises the [...]