Numinous

by Leila A. Fortier

Written in the spirit of mysticism, Numinous is an ecstatic collection of sculpted poetry and visual design. Exploring the paradoxical realms of spiritual awakening from silence to song; absence to abundance--Numinous captures the rapture of the unseen and unexplained. Poems whirl like dervishes off the page disrobing conventions of language and transcending the world of absolutes. Numinous merges poetry with art, revealing the abstract alchemy of divine consciousness, leaving only a taste of the sacred.

"Leila Fortier is not just a woman. She is the living embodiment of love, and her Numinous is what happens when love exhales: shimmering, luminous poetry and art. Following the ecstatic tradition of the divine, mystic poet, Fortier offers an encompassing interplay of seeming opposites--pages overflow with emptiness, words emanate musical silence, and we are led deeper and deeper into the lucidity of dream. Here is a collection that illustrates, page after page, what we need to remember every day, that one simple truth: All is sacred."

~ Melissa Studdard, Author of I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast

"Leila Fortier's Numinous is a sizzler, full of visionary beauty. With elegantly crafted language, her poems are "Quietly burning." She invites her readers to enter a world lit with passion... "breathing your silent kiss / Where my eternity / Reigns." Her poems are informed by a timelessness where, "Words have become silence and the spaces have / Become our words" - inviting readers to remember the source of oceans, sun, snow leopards, rain, all living things, and the whisperings of the soul. Leila's poems remind us to wake up and feel the beauty of the world, "Stars spilled across the / Oil of the night." Her poems are written in the voice of the Sacred Feminine, sacred as the womb, a prayer, "Where our only /Separation / Is time / Itself." This is a book to treasure over the years."

~ Diane Frank, Author of Yoga of the Impossible

118 pages, Paperback

First published November 17, 2014

About the author

Leila A. Fortier is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet, artist, and photographer residing in Okinawa, Japan. Her sculpted poetry is often accompanied by her own multi-medium forms of art, photography, and spoken performance. Known for her contributions to humanitarian causes through the arts, selections of her work have also been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, and German in a growing effort to foster cultural diversity and understanding through the voice of poetry. She has most recently initiated the venue Poetic License to support other writers through book reviews, feature interviews, articles, and inspiration. Her work in all its mediums has been featured in hundreds of publications globally in print and online. Numinous is her second book of poetry newly released through Saint Julian Press. A complete listing of her published works can be found at: www.leilafortier.com