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Lilith's Garden

Poetry - first time in print!

By Victor H. Anderson

Trade Paper
ISBN 9780971005051

Lilith's Garden cover

Lilith's Garden

By Victor H. Anderson

Trade Paper
ISBN 9780971005051

About Lilith's Garden

The Further Poetry of Victor Anderson

A companion volume to Anderson's award-winning first book of poetry, Thorns of the Blood Rose, the author selected the poems in Lilith's Garden for publication before his death (in 2001). Picking up where the first book left off, these poems explore themes of love, death, the beauty of the natural world, and devotions to the Goddess and God in their many guises. Some of the poems that were deemed too scandalous for inclusion in the previous work are published here for the first time.


About the Author: Victor H. Anderson

Victor Anderson (1917–2001) was the modern founder of the Feri Tradition. Blind since childhood, he was also one of the last Kahuna. Victor and his wife, Cora, trained some of the most influential voices in neo-Paganism. He is the award-winning... Full biography

 

Every poem is a love letter to the Goddess.

 

Victor Anderson lives still in these fierce loving poems, in which the simplest words burst forth into brilliant flower. Sonorous and elegant, his poems capture the pagan heart.

 

Robert Graves once said that any 'true' poem is an invocation to the Goddess. Surely no poet's work passes this test as consistently as Victor Anderson's. Each poem is an initiation, an epiphany, a spell. And in the exegesis of Witchcraft, it is not the essayist, but the poet, who must take the seat of honor.

 

This is a symphony of Victor’s great divine love for the Goddess, expressed in ecstasy.