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See inside the book here!Williams’ the secret book of god speaks to the mythic archetypes that reside in all of us in a voice that is soulful, intelligent, and full of imagery. This book is a journey into mythopoetics for academics and laymen alike. Williams writes with an almost eerie insight into human nature that quenches the popular thirst for expressions of longing and intimacy so prevalent in today’s internet-centered society.
Many of the poems in the secret book of god possess a healing quality as they reach deep and bring a light to that place in us where self-love is often overshadowed by old wounds. While other poems are soul-searching journeys that begin as a poet’s dream and carry us through imagery to the realization of our own personal longings.
Williams is an unsung philosopher with a gift for interpreting the human psyche through the poetics of image. It is through such imagery that the secret book of god offers readers a glimpse into the human heart that will deepen their own journey into the richness of soul territories they have for too long been too wounded to explore.
Ric Williams was born in Arkansas in 1952. He began acting and writing early and has been interested in the slippery nature of consciousness ever since. He received his master’s degree in mythology with an emphasis in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 1998.
Williams has edited the “Litera†listings of The Austin Chronicle since 1988. He wrote the “Poet’s Beat†column (interviews with local poets) for The Austin Light from 1987-1991. He edited for Ed Buffalo’s poetry anthologies Aileron and Vowel Movement in the late 80’s and early 90’s and was the associate editor from 1997-1999 for Alchemy on Sunday, the literary journal of Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Williams has written and/or edited for the Austin Chronicle, Man! Magazine, the Salt Journal, and Creative Pulse Magazine. Williams’ interview with Larry McMurtry is included in Conversations with Texas Writers, published in March 2005 by UT Press.
Although Williams’ poetry has been featured in many publications over the years, this is the first solo collection of his poems. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his artist wife Christy Kale and their daughters Kady and Ramona. “I don’t know†is often the wisest thing he has ever said. Yet, he believes the universe is, ultimately, a comedy and wants you to know that, despite any thing you may have heard to the contrary, “You matter. You will always matter.â€
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Long-time Austin literatus Ric Williams, who has edited the “Litera†column in The Austin Chronicle since 1988, launches his first solo collection of poems, the secret book of god, issued by Dalton Publishing, Austin, Texas.
Williams’ the secret book of god speaks to the mythic archetypes that reside in all of us in a voice that is soulful, intelligent, and full of imagery. This book is a journey into mythopoetics for academics and laymen alike. Williams writes with an almost eerie insight into human nature that quenches the popular thirst for expressions of longing and intimacy so prevalent in today’s online-dating, instant-messaging, internet-coffeeshopping, reality-TV-watching society. Download Full Press Release PDF
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Sometimes brilliance reflects a pair of turning hands. To catch a glimpse of what this lovely brilliance is like suggests our own hands turn over pages of a book in which such secrets of soul-tending loveliness are shared. The book of poems by poet-mythologist Richard Lance Williams, The Secret Book of God, offers readers this kind of soulful opportunity. …Download full review and others here - PDF.
Approaching a first review of Ric William’s first published book of poetry, the secret book of god, one is immediately impressed by the stark white linen-like texture of the cold bound volume. Opening the book the raised lower case letters of the title slide like braille under the finger tips: luxurious, sensorial, promising revelation of ancient cuneiform secrets. Continuing the theme of ancient text inside the cover is the palimpsest page, reminding us of a time when writing materials were precious and often used one or more times after earlier writing had been erased. One is now glad, that one has learned to read. Download full review and others here - PDF.
Blake Meets Cummings: Poets William Blake and ee cummings meet in Ric Williams’ the secret book of god, but that’s just the beginning of the sudden and slow ecstasies that will dance off the page into your head reading these poems. Intelligent bright fire, humor and love! Download this review and others here - PDF.
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