Something At The Center [Paperback]

Barry Harris (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 23, 2003

The Sanskrit word "namaste" roughly translates as "my soul recognizes the divinity in you." Something At The Center explores the soul's recognition of the divine in everyday experience. Truth is found in our daily struggles as well as in deliberate moments of solitude and soul searching. This poetry stands in witness to the discoveries made when we are "fortunate to stand inside God's smile.""This book of poetic intimacy is a poignant reflection of the author's own spiritual journey. Each poem allows the reader access to the joys, sorrows, wonders, fears, questions, parallels and unconditional loves of the "surprise" encounters with God in each of our lives."-Sister Judian Breitenbach, PHJC, The NAMASTÉ Center for Holistic Education"This collection of poems will surely strike a beautiful, divine, harmonic chord in your heart. By peeking into the soul of Barry Harris, we eavesdrop on the thoughts of God."-Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D., author of Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water and Health of the Human Spirit.

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About the Author

Barry Harris lives with his wife in rural Tipton County, Indiana and is a graduate of Ball State University. His poem, ?State Road 13,? won the Indianapolis Public Library Creative Writing Award. His poetry has been published in small literary journals and he was editor of The Inner Well.http://barryharrispoems.com

Product Details

• Paperback: 110 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (October 23, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595296548
• ISBN-13: 978-0595296545
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,810,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Have you ever purchased the work of a newly-written poet?, January 1, 2004

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Patricia Snider (Myrtle Beach, SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Something At The Center (Paperback)

If not, step out on a limb and discover "Something At The Center."

Barry Harris has published a delightful, multi-dimensional book of poetry. Through these pages we are allowed an intimate glimpse of one man's tribute to God, friends, and community. Share his triumphs, disappointments, curiosities, revelations and spiritual truths.  

"Something At The Center" is fulfilling poetry.  It will speak to you beyond the page and touch your heart.

5.0 out of 5 stars At the center is an open gate, January 5, 2011

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Jenny A. Kalahar "the_story_shop" (Elwood, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This fine book of poems explores several aspects of searching, and perhaps finding, a sense of the divine through relationships with the self and friends and family. But to me, the poems that speak the loudest of real faith are those that don't confront it directly. The purest truths are off to one side of that center, tucked into the folds of poems like "The Eve of the Fourth of July" and "State Road 13". The poem that seems to glide and meander closest to Mr. Harris' sought-after center is "Mystic Man". It glows as he glows, standing "deep inside God's smile". "One of Those Nights" lets you imagine something of the physical person behind the words, his body at meditation, and then rushing over the finish line to "grass green and good", while giving you an equal insight into his soul. I loved the Indiana-ness of "Summer's End" and the rhythms of "Probing the Mysteries of the Holy" and the spot-on soaring magic of a solo road-trip in "Carolina New Year's Eve". "Thunderstorm Warning" feels like an endpiece. Corners have been turned, and things could change instantly, at any moment. Even in that same-old approach to home.