The poems of Ellen Jane Powers" CELESTIAL NAVIGATION are alive with the voices we hear, spoken and unspoken, from the world"s expansive breadth. "Ellen Jane Powers" CELESTIAL NAVIGATION reads like a contemporary Song of Songs in which the mystical and the biblical commingle with the daily ministries of garden life, sky, as well as earth"s undersong of loss and passing. These quietly lush poems read like blessings that are at once deftly attuned to the planet"s "quiet turning" and profoundly cognizant of the truth that, ultimately, it is only "threads of light" that "ground the illusion" of our presence here. Contemplative, devotional, the poems of CELESTIAL NAVIGATION orient us toward the sacred, and enact the visionary with passion and clarity."-Daniel Tobin "The vivid, mystical, evocative poems collected in Ellen Jane Powers" CELESTIAL NAVIGATION are a delight to savor. The spirit"s silent search is given words: "The real kingdom,/ not up there, nor to the left or the...