Penelope's Loom

This book contains poems devoted to the task of turning matter into spirit (Louise Nevelson). They explore the many avenues in which such alchemy takes place. Through art, sculpture, photography, science, nature and other modes, magical transformation can occur, and poetry itself becomes
the alchemical vessel revealing these many approaches by which the mundane rises to the level of the transcendent.



Her earlier books were clearly marked as inspired by Rumi and other writers from the ancient spiritual tradition, both in subject and style. These poems, though not so obviously spiritual in nature, reach out to include the many contemporary realms in which the sacred and secular fuse, divine and human merge, and the whole becomes one dazzling vision of that we call reality.



Praise for Dorothys writing: Dorothys words are like radiant sparks emerging from the darkness, birthed by the womb of the universe Herself, and always pointing back to their Source. (Lawrence Edwards, Ph. D., author, The Souls Journey and Awakening Kundalini.)