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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Dowsing also works with electrical fields. The sticks will also cross under power lines or over underground water or power lines. Interestingly, my son, who was in Explosive Ordinance Detail in the Army, and was tasked with removing unexploded bombs, mines and other devices, often underground, said that he used dowsing to locate the devices in order to disable them. The dowsing rods were sensitive to the metal and electrical parts in the devices.<\/em><\/p>\n

Using dowsing as a metaphor for how poetry comes to be written led me to the title of the book. Finding a poem is much like finding water underground: you never quite know where it will come from or where it may take you, but writing is an act of faith, much like turning your will over to a pair of green twigs. \u2014 <\/em>Georgia Santa Maria<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About The Book
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Georgia Santa Maria\u2019s poems have a liveliness and earthiness one can only wish that more poems had. Her poems are inquisitive, curious about the world and its variety, and they express a mature but undiminished wonder for even human nature. Social critique is also one of her strengths\u2014 serious but never heavy handed. In her poem called \u201cWomen on the Money,\u201d for example, Santa Maria asks
\n\u201cAnd, while you might trust Rosa Parks,
\nto clean your house,
\nor raise your children,
\nwhy put her on the money, when
\nwe didn\u2019t even want to pay her, much\u2014
\nwhy do you think she was
\nriding the bus, anyway?\u201d
\nWe need more poems like this one called \u201cThe Vegan Feminist Dilemma,\u201d more poems that ask \u201cShould I eat, or just become a vegan tart?\u201d They make us laugh, and think, and feel a little more at home on the earth, which is something we need. Good poetry actually can make that happen. \u2014Tony Hoagland<\/p>\n


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Read a sampling from Dowsing here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISBN 9781929878635<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Georgia Santa Maria
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CONGRATULATIONS TO GEORGIA SANTA MARIA – RECIPIENT of the 3rd LUMMOX POETRY PRIZE…This book is part of the prize.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I was introduced to dowsing by a neighbor in the 1970\u2019s in Miami, New Mexico. It is the ancient art of finding water underground by using two sticks, either green twigs or pieces of wire. In the book, I introduce him in the poem \u201cDowser\u201d. I watched him use both green elm and unbent coat-hangars. He held them out straight in front of him, and when he was over water, the sticks crossed and bent downward. A person with this skill is called a \u201cwater-witch\u201d. My friend had \u201cdowsed\u201d most of the wells in our community over his seventy odd years of living there. He taught me to do it as well, and I can\u2019t explain it, but the sticks turned in my hands spontaneously over the same places they did for him, and I could feel the tug. \u2014 Georgia Santa Maria<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4818,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[292,293,294],"product_tag":[435,298],"class_list":{"0":"post-4817","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_cat-poetry-prize-winners","8":"product_cat-poetry-contest-winners","9":"product_tag-georgia-santa-maria","10":"product_tag-lummox-press","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}