Wild Tourist

By Celeste Snowber

Wild Tourist is a unique and uplifting book of poetry giving instructions from the Divine Feminine to be a Wild Tourist in your own being.
Entering the world of Celeste’s Snowber’s “Instructions to a Wild Tourist from the Divine Feminine” is a pressing of the ear to the “rumblings of your own soul.” Each lyric invites a quantum leap to the place where tourism becomes homecoming and you find yourself touching the body of the earth where it touches the body of the cosmos. In these poems hear how “the body sings/the body cries and whispers/ with a wash of wonder.” ~ Susan McCaslin, author of The Disarmed Heart (St. Thomas Poetry Series) and Into the Mystic: My Years with Olga (Inanna)

Reading “Instructions to a Wild Tourist from the Divine Feminine” is the most responsible action I have taken in a long time and Celeste Snowber does not miss the opportunity to divinely, without hesitation, remind me of this while reading. I feel happily obligated to share these instructions with other tourists in my life. For my colleagues, daughters, friends and others I have yet to meet, I have found
perfect poems to share in this passionately channeled book from a divine poet.” ~ Barbara Bickel, Artist and Professor of Art Education and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Southern Illinois University

• Language: English
• Publisher: Silver Bow Publishing
• Release date: Oct 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781927616253

Celeste Snowber

Celeste Snowber, Ph.D. is a dancer, writer and educator, who is an Associate Professor in Arts Education in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Greater Vancouver, B.C., Canada. She has written numerous essays and poetry in various journals and chapters in books in the areas of the arts and is author of Embodied Prayer and co-author of Landscapes in Aesthetic Education. Celeste continues to create/perform site-specific work in connection to the natural world and is passionate about creating from experiences of daily life. She is an Interplay leader and has led workshops throughout North America and continues to focus her work in the areas of spirituality, the body, arts-based research, embodied forms of inquiry, curriculum studies, holistic education, and ecological education. Celeste continues to be enlivened through opening spaces for transformative learning. She is a mother of three sons, all a tribe of amazing artists. Books: Wild Tourist - Instructions form the Divine Feminine (Silver Bow Publishing)

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Wild Tourist

By Celeste Snowber

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The soul should always stand ajar

ready to welcome

the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

OTHER BOOKS BY CELESTE SNOWBER

In the Womb of God: Creative Nurturing for the Soul

Liguori, 1995

Embodied Prayer: Towards Wholeness of Body, Mind, Soul,

Wood Lake/Northstone, 2004

Landscapes of Aesthetic Education co authored with S. Richmond,

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009/2011

Copyright © 2016 Silver Bow Publishing

Cover Painting: JUMP UP Dobee Snowber

Layout/Design: Candice James

All rights reserved including the right to reproduce or translate this book or any portions thereof, in any form

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Snowber, Celeste, 1956-, author

Wild tourist : Instructions to a wild tourist from the divine feminine

Celeste Snowber.

Includes index.

Poems.

ISBN 978-1-927616-19-2 (paperback)

I.Title.

PS8637.N713W54 2016 C811'.6.C2016-900101-6

preface

This is not a book I was planning to write. Wild

tourist took a hold of me and wrote itself out of the

depths. Its conception was on the Big Island of

Hawaii in Kapa’au on the Kohala Coast. I was

awoken in the middle of the night as I had a habit of

doing; and had very interesting conversations with

Pele, who is the Hawaiian volcano goddess. Yes, it

sounds a bit wild, but then this is nothing new for

=me. I am a wild woman who loves to knit. I have

lived in my own contradictions of wildness and

domestication for many years. I was on an artist

holiday/retreat, and yet there was nothing about