Wordcatcher

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“I am awed by Phil Cousineau’s scholarship and the overall view he has of inner matters. He has a genius for the soulful dimensions of words, and a rare intelligence for communicating the numinous dimension of language.
Wordcatcher
will grace the lives of all who read it, and inspire them to respect, even revere words as much as its author does.”

—Robert A. Johnson, author of
He, She,
and
Slender Threads

“Phil Cousineau’s
Wordcatcher
is a wonderful meditation on words that can be read from beginning to end if you are obsessed with speech, greedy for mountain air, and into enlightened verbal play. Not a dry lexical listing, each word Cousineau chooses sings with cellos, vagabonds through tongues and history, and bounces like a balloon on the moon, and as high as his quirky imagination takes us. Compelled reading for residence in the ancient synagogue of the word.”

—Willis Barnstone, author of
The Restored New Testament
and
Ancient Greek Lyrics

BOOKS BY PHIL COUSINEAU

 

The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on his Life and Work 1990
Deadlines: A Rhapsody on a Theme of Famous Last Words 1991
The Soul of the World: A Modern Book of Hours (with Eric Lawton) 1993
Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and The Doors
(by John Densmore with Phil Cousineau) 1993
Soul: An Archaeology: Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles 1994
Prayers at 3 A.M.: .: Poems, Songs, Chants for the Middle of the Night 1995
UFOs: A Mythic Manual for the Millennium 1995
Design Outlaws: On the Frontier of the 21st Century (with Chris Zelov) 1996
Soul Moments: Marvelous Stories of Synchronicity 1997
The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker’s Guide to Making Travel Sacred 1998
Riddle Me This: A World Treasury of Folk and Literary Puzzles 1999
The Soul Aflame: A Modern Book of Hours (with Eric Lawton) 2000
The Book of Roads: Travel Stories from Michigan to Marrakesh 2000
Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Modern Times 2001
The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life 2003
The Olympic Odyssey: Rekindling the Spirit of the Great Games 2004
The Blue Museum: Poems 2004
A Seat at the Table: The Struggle for American Indian Religious Freedom 2005
Angkor Wat: The Marvelous Enigma (photographs) 2006
Night Train: New Poems 2007
The Jaguar People: An Amazonian Chronicle (photographs) 2007
Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination 2008
Fungoes and Fastballs: Great Moments in Baseball Haiku 2008
The Meaning of Tea (with Scott Chamberlin Hoyt) 2009
City 21: The Search for the Second Enlightenment (with Chris Zelov) 2009
The Oldest Story in the World: A Mosaic of Meditations on Storytelling 2010
Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words 2010
Atonement: The Next Step in Forgiveness and Healing [forthcoming]
Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo? [forthcoming]