When The Gods Were Half Human is at once raw and mythopoetic, inhabiting the liminal spaces where gods bleed, humans steal fire, and the divine forgets its distance—always returning in reverence to the beauty found in the breaking. It is a meditation on pain, love, and personal transformation that delves—poignant and irreverent—into questions of being and transcendence that blur the line between sacred and mundane. Viscerally poetic and as personal as it is universal, these poems represent an invitation to feel our humanity more deeply, to remember our innocence, to reclaim our pain, and to find the divine pulse in our human fracture.
🙏 You’ll notice this book is given by donation.
For more details on why, and how to select a donation amount, please see the Gift Economy section at the bottom of the page. To order, please make your selections from the Format and Option drop-downs above then input your gift amount. Thank you!
🎙️ Audio Book
Description
Let yourself sink into the contemplative stillness of these works, read by yours truly sitting at the edge of nature, accompanied by the thrum of the forest. This 90 minute audio book will be delivered as a downloadable file as well as a link for direct streaming.
🔊 Samples
PURCHASING OPTIONS
If you want the audio in a format that is partitioned by sections and poems, it is available on Audible as such. To purchase here by donation (all of which goes directly to the artist, myself) simply select Audio Book from the format dropdown above. (Please make any selection from the option dropdown for it to work. There are no signed copies of digital downloads for obvious reasons.) You'll be directed to a page with a download link after purchasing. Thank you!
Gift Economy
The suggested market value is for this book is $16 (softcover) and $25 (hardcover). After the cost of printing and shipping, these amounts leave roughly $10 in support for the author.
If you have plenty, I welcome you to give generously — it supports me and helps cover those who can’t give as much. If you have little, give what feels right. I’ve been there too, and I’m happy to pay it forward. If you can’t contribute right now, that’s okay — truly.
Letting you decide the value of this book is an act of trust. I’m not just selling a product — I’m inviting a relationship.
In our culture we have largely depersonalized the act of exchange and forgotten that money is only a metaphor for the resources that are real to the animal body: food, shelter, warmth, touch, time. I wish to reanimate the relational over the transactional — to remember that giving and receiving are the heartbeat of our humanity, the pulse of all true intimacy.
Art, to me, is communion. It reminds us we belong to one another — that creation and appreciation are two halves of the same breath.
In offering this book by donation, I’m choosing the vulnerability of uncertainty, that I might not get for my work a return of energy equal to that invested within it. But the risk of that uncertainty is what makes relationship possible. You are not a consumer here, you are a patron...you are a participant.
When you read my words, my life becomes part of yours. When you give, you become part of the art — and part of artist.
Blessings.