BOOKS
THE PSALM 37 MENAGERIE
2023. As a spiritual exercise during the 40 days of Lent, Jeff Reed wrote a daily poem prompted each day by the 40 verses of Psalm 23. The poems launch from Psalm 23 like divers from diving boards, different heights, different styles, different insights yielding splash after delightful splash. This small volume fits in a purse or jacket pocket and is easy to take along on a commute, a picnic, or an overnight to the beach. It also makes a fine stocking stuffer!
$6.00
SEASON OF DRAGONFLIES
2022. Jeff Reed's latest collection of poems Season of Dragonflies gathers together poems written over the last decade and offers close encounters with finely distilled moments stretching through a season of significant change in both its welcome and unwelcome varieties. From the marriage of children to the death of his father, from the exhilaration and agony of spiritual faith to the long plodding nerve sustaining the twists and turns of everyday life, these poems offer a wide forage through fields of human becoming. These poems are music in the mouth, accessible to the non-specialist. As fresh takes on the familiar, they offer a doorway to see and feel something alive nudging us toward joy. "Come, you arcane seekers of light, the sunset shadows behind every rock are ready to tell their stories."
Hardback 31.50, Paperback 8.99
ESTUARIAL
2018. What happens when you take two wildly different things, suddenly throw them together into a tight space on a small page, shake vigorously and closely observe the mingling? Estuarial is the poetic test-tube for just such an experiment, and the results are sometimes delightful, sometimes prophetic, always eye-opening!
$9.99
LAMENTATION OF SWANS
2017. The poems in Lamentation of Swans swing a double-edged sword. With one breath they rage against the ugliness of global human exploitation and with the next they dare believe that a Spirit-inspired worldwide abolition movement is under way, bearing hope up against the overwhelming weight of darkness. Inspired by a community of courageous culture changers in SE Asia, and accompanied by images of beautiful embroideries made by these women living in the heart of the storm, Jeff Reed presents this next collection of poems as an offering of solidarity with the prayer that the longed-for freedoms will continue to take root and grow into a reality where human flourishing is nurtured and human dignity carries the day.
$10.00
IN SEARCH OF J. MORTON ALLEN
2015. A mysterious kind stranger from Jeff Reed’s childhood becomes the inspiration for his newest collection of poetry. Powered by the iconic myth of J. Morton Allen, the poems herein explore the numinous world that insists on teasing the edges of our knowing by means of night dreams, angel visitations, old saints and poets, eldritch cool spaces in the wild woods, and the myths and stories and histories which are calling out in a way that only the homesick can hear.
$9.95
KORÉ ON THE TRAIL OF THE TREE KEEPERS
2015. An evil queen and her salivating hounds are on the hunt. A fugitive young girl and her owl companion flee across the Wilderness of Zin. Will they elude the queen’s grasp and reach the refuge of distant Mt. Horeb before they are captured? How will they find their way through the strange enchanted landscape? Enter into the cadence and imaginative world of this epic poem filled with wisdom and adventure. A tale that stands in the tradition of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Kóre on the Trail of the Tree Keepers offers a gritty vision of the virtuous life that can serve as a compass in today’s moral wilderness.
Paperback: $12.00. Hardback: $33.00
VOLUME ONE
2013. This handsome hardback legacy volume contains the collected poems, songs, and other writings of Jeff Reed through the first 50 years of his life. Many of the poems are annotated with biographical details. All of his published works though 2013 are included in this volume.
$31.00
LESS THAN CITY
2013. On first glance the suburbs might seem a tepid subject for stirring poetry. Jeff Reed thinks differently. Taking ordinary snapshots of life in suburbia, Reed turns on the imaginative heat to distill timeless truths from simple settings.
$6.00
MENE TEKEL
2012. What happens when the famed twelve apostles descend on Las Vegas? Expect a whirlwind clash of values deliciously served up in this long poetic ode.
$6.00
A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
2011. Jeff Reed accepts the invitation to enter into the stories behind the faces of William Bouguereau's famous paintings of young peasant girls. A compassionate literary experiment in art appreciation through poetry.
$9.99
THE SONG OF CHRIST
2009. The Song of Christ is a 40 stanza sacrettal sequence that tells the whole story of Jesus from creation, to OT appearances, to incarnation, to life and ministry, to death, to resurrection, and to ascension.
$6.50
THE ASCENSION WINDOW
2008. The Ascension Window is a poem that attempts to celebrate the historic Christian mission in Wales by capturing and conveying the images and the meanings in the great East Window of St. Asaph Cathedral in North Wales. The poem is a "sacrettal sequence" in four parts. Included is a detailed commentary featuring pictures of the various scenes depicted in the Window.
$6.99
THE CAST
2008. A 40 "sacrette" stanza poem with commentary that traces the story of God's redemption of the cosmos through the various characters that play key roles on the pages of the Bible. A fresh way to engage with the whole Biblical drama.
$6.50
WAKING UP IN WALES
2008. A collection of Jeff Reed's favorite poems spanning 1984 to 2008.
$6.50