Everything We Create Smells Like the Earth

Everything We Create Smells Like the Earth is a rhapsodic primal scream for lovers of poetry today. Reading this volume of poems was similar to sitting down over a stiff drink with Allen Ginsburg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti and chit-chatting about the predicament of the world. Paul McGlamery reminds us of our ever present relationship with Mother Earth and yet the nuances and mysteries of primitive life are still resonating in our modern lives.

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Everything We Create Smells Like the Earth is a rhapsodic primal scream for lovers of poetry today. Reading this volume of poems was similar to sitting down over a stiff drink with Allen Ginsburg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti and chit-chatting about the predicament of the world. Paul McGlamery reminds us of our ever present relationship with Mother Earth and yet the nuances and mysteries of primitive life are still resonating in our modern lives. As it has been, so it will be. This book is a testament to the versatility and veracity of Paul’s work which is chocked full of images and word combos that will crystallize and gel like amber in your soul.

–Dev Galey McCluskie, author of Spoon Songs.

Everything We Create Smells Like Earth is a rare document of undiscovered phenomena, a magnificent expedition, and a travelogue of dirt-stained wisdom. I felt as if I were reading the journals of a frontier explorer. The topography was foreign to me. The visions were ancient and familiar. And the language: oh, the language was a most gracious spirit guide. Reading these poems is like discovering something that has been hidden for millennia, and is only just now being revealed.

–Eve Brackenbury, co-author of A Companion of Lesser Brillance, co-author of The Lennox Garden: Pressed Between Pages, and Shadowed Grounds.

About the Author

Paul McGlamery lives in Suffolk, Virginia. He is a husband and a father, a poet and a dreamer. Paul works full-time as a customer service supervisor for a international shipping company, yet his role as a parent to a ten-year old daughter and a six-year old son is his most demanding and rewarding occupation. Being a father informs and shapes his life completely. Paul believes in nature, love and harmony. He hopes that one day peace will be more prosperous than war. He knows that life is full of surprises, and being selected as ELJ Publications’ 2014 The We Will Plan Big Things Poetry Prize Winner definitely caught him by surprise.

Everything We Create Smells Like the Earth is the result of five years of writing verse about the circle of life. Like most people, Paul has lived and loved, but also experienced heartbreak and loss. This collection is his testimony, his theology, his therapy.

Paul is co-author of A Companion of Lesser Brilliance written in collaboration with his good friend Eve Brackenbury.

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