Moon Over Topanga, Owl in Ojai [Paperback]

Leona Elen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2002

Moon Over Topanga, Owl in Ojai, and Other Tales from Turtle Island is Leona Graham-Elen’s second book of poetry (following At Home In Bell Buckle, published in 1995) and literally embraces family and friends, as some of the 90 poems were contributed by friends and family.

Engaging her world-wide community, calling on us to participate in The One Work of spiritual, social and ecological regeneration, Leona transports us around a planet full of rich, powerful and purposeful adventures for a pilgrim ‘on the path’.

From America’s Deep South to Far West, Canada’s wild suburbs and hinterlands, across the seas to Ancient Avalon and magical India, Leona’s Journey to the Source reminds the reader of our shared humanity, the power of love and the importance of community.

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About the Author

LEONA GRAHAM-ELEN has been writing poetry since she was a girl growing up in the Nova Scotia of the 1940s. Following a Canadian University education, she traveled the world studying the traditions and literature of indigenous peoples for her PhD thesis. She taught English Language & Literature at the Universities of Victoria (BC), British Columbia (Vancouver, BC), and Western Ontario (London, Ont).

In the Seventies, Leona was drawn to the Findhorn Foundation, an educational spiritual community in the north of Scotland, where she worked with the founders, lectured, gave workshops, organized international conferences, and lived for almost a decade.

In the late Eighties she moved to Glastonbury - site of the first Christian settlement in England and focus of the Arthurian legends - where, with colleagues, she founded the educational Isle of Avalon Foundation and the Library of Avalon, and collaborated in stage and video productions.

Leona lived in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, in 1994 and 1995 with her then-husband Richard, where they founded The Brideswell Press. Today, Leona and Richard live together in Topanga, California.

Leona is currently working on Passages About Gwenhwyfar, a book on the Arthurian legends from Queen Guinevere's point of view.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Brideswell Press (March 2002)
• ISBN-10: 0964955318
• ISBN-13: 978-0964955318
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,664,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)