Dressing Our Wounds in Warm Clothes [Paperback]

Donna Henes (Author), Photographs by Sarah Jenkins (Illustrator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0937122025 | ISBN-13: 978-0937122020 | Publication Date: February 1, 1982 | Edition: First edition

Dressing Our Wounds in Warm Clothes is a work of healing and connection to the disenfranchised peoples in society and to the closed doors, abandoned rooms, of our psyches. Henes and Jenkins document Henes' sculpture/ritual for the Manhattan Psychiatric Center at Ward's Island. The text is of Henes' dreams and process; the visual images are photographs from the work. But the images are gathered and pieced together in such a way that they have no linear beginning or end. All together they are a sequence out of the ordinary time and space but which yet record a time and space when and where there can be sanity and relationship.

Editorial Reviews

Review

It was not until I came across Dressing Our Wounds in Warm Clothes, which captures the texture of the poem-houses of my dreams, that I met another journal-keeper who built houses from visions of minuscule, ordinary beauty. My houses are poems and journal entries for me now, and I thank Donna Henes for that. --N'tozake Shange, The New York Times Book Review

Wins my award for the best performance book to date. Life through her looking glass is close up, never distanced from a spiritual search in Henes discoveries of order. --Washington Review

Some years ago, urban shaman Donna Henes conjured up a three-week ceremony called Dressing Our Wounds in Warm Clothes. Equal parts performance art and healing ritual, it was staged at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center on Wards Island, a scrap of land that also hosts a sewage disposal plant. In its ambition, the event rivaled Mother Teresa's well-publicized toilet cleaning at a leper colony. I bring Henes's noble act of creativity to your attention because you'd be smart to draw inspiration from it. --Rob Brezsny, The Village Voice

Wins my award for the best performance book to date. Life through her looking glass is close up, never distanced from a spiritual search in Henes discoveries of order. --Washington Review

Some years ago, urban shaman Donna Henes conjured up a three-week ceremony called Dressing Our Wounds in Warm Clothes. Equal parts performance art and healing ritual, it was staged at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center on Wards Island, a scrap of land that also hosts a sewage disposal plant. In its ambition, the event rivaled Mother Teresa's well-publicized toilet cleaning at a leper colony. I bring Henes's noble act of creativity to your attention… because you'd be smart to draw inspiration from it. --Rob Brezsny, The Village Voice

About the Author

Donna Henes is an internationally renowned urban shaman, ritual expert, award-winning author, popular speaker and workshop leader whose joyful celebrations of celestial events have introduced ancient traditional rituals and contemporary ceremonies to millions of people in more than 100 cities since 1972. She is the author of The Queen of My Self, Celestially Auspicious Occasions and Moon Watcher s Companion. She writes for The Huffington Post, Beliefnet and UPI Religion and Spirituality Forum. A noted ritual expert, she serves as a consultant on Hollywood films. Mama Donna, as she is affectionately called, maintains a ritual practice where she works with individuals, groups, institutions, municipalities and corporations to create meaningful ceremonies for every imaginable occasion.

Product Details

• Paperback: 36 pages
• Publisher: Astro Artz; First edition edition (February 1, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0937122025
• ISBN-13: 978-0937122020
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,592,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

'Unofficial Commissioner of Public Spirit of NYC.' The New Yorker
'Part performance artist, part witch, part social director for planet earth.' The Village Voice
'Globally significant theater-in-the-round.' Brooklyn Bridge Magazine
'The woman is balanced.' Paper Magazine
'Solstice Sister.' TimeOut New York
'The Original crystal-packing mama.' NY Press
'Frankly, I do not doubt her.' Dan Rather
'Insightful, funny, a treasure. One of the best 'goddess gals' around.' Olympia Dukakis

Donna Henes is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, popular speaker, and award-winning writer specializing in multi-cultural ritual celebrations of the cycles of the seasons and the seasons of our lives. Her joyful celebrations of celestial events have introduced ancient traditional rituals and contemporary ceremonies to millions of people in more than one hundred cities for thirty-three years.

She the author of four books, The Queen of My Self: Stepping into Sovereignty in Midlife, The Moon Watcher's Companion, Celestially Auspicious Occasions': Seasons, Cycles, and Celebrations, and Dressing Our Wounds In Warm Clothes, as well as the CD, Reverence To Her: Mythology, the Matriarchy, & Me and an acclaimed quarterly journal, Always in Season: Living in Sync with the Cycles. She writes a weekly column for UPI Religion and Spirituality Forum. In addition to teaching and lecturing worldwide, Mama Donna, as she is affectionately called, maintains a ceremonial center, spirit shop, ritual practice and consultancy where she works with individuals, groups, institutions, municipalities and corporations to create meaningful ceremonies for every imaginable occasion.

Henes is a founding member and on the Board of Directors of the International Center for Celebration, and she served as a children's book award judge for the United Nations Jane Addams Peace Association from 1980-1988. In 1982, she composed the first satellite peace message in space: 'chants for peace * chance for peace.'

She has been a recipient of four fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as numerous project grants from municipalities, corporations, and foundations. Her listings include: Who's Who in America; Who's Who in American Art; Who's Who in Entertainment; Who's Who in American Writers, Editors, and Poets; and The World's Who's Who of Women.

For further information about Donna Henes' work or to request a calendar of upcoming events, a list of publications and services, and a complimentary copy of Always in Season, contact Mama Donna at:
www.DonnaHenes.net
www.TheQueenOfMySelf.com
To purchase multicultural ceremonial tools and supplies go to:
www.MamaDonnasSpiritShop.com