CATALOG DESCRIPTION

Author: David K Wheeler
Website: Dave Writes Right
Contact: davie [dot] wheeler [at] gmail [dot] com

5.5″ x 8.5″
102 pages
paperback, $14
978-0984553129
Available through Ingram & Amazon







October 2010

POETRY



Summary

Contingency Plans maps the body, the land, and the hollows therein, eager to determine their dimensions, carried along by the gales of possibility, to find what once made us anxious is out of the question, and what has kept us awake now sings us back to sleep.

Author
David K Wheeler writes for two web magazines: The High Calling and Burnside Writers Collective. His work has also been featured at The Morning News, as well as included in The Pacific Northwest Reader, an essay collection from Harper/Delphinium. His music project, There There, is scheduled to release early in 2011.

Publicity

• The author has written for online and print publications such as The High Calling, Burnside Writers Collective, The Morning News, The Pacific Northwest Reader, The Outlet blog, The Wanderlust Review, The Penwood Review, Chronogram Magazine, and Jeopardy Magazine.
• The author will be reading at bookstores in 2011.
• The author has experience in spoken word and slam poetry events through Poetrynight, the longest running branch of The Whatcom Poetry Series, a nonprofit poetry program.

Endorsements

These are poems of great spiritual crisis and consequence, where the dark night of the soul is a rugged rucksack shouldered by the poet. But the wilderness resounds with the voice of a choir and the wearying road can always beckon you home.
— Oliver de la Paz, author of Requiem for the Orchard

A great poet confounds me; he uses the same materials I do — words — but where I’ve built a fort, he has erected a cathedral. Wheeler has “revealed the space behind our ribs,” and I must remove my sandals.
— Susan Isaacs, author of Angry Conversations with God

Simultaneously eloquent and potently raw; intimate reflections on spirituality and maturation, in harmony and conflict, that reverberate through every human journey.
— Carol Cassella, author of Healer and National Bestseller Oxygen

Infused with the sort of holiness discovered in that quiet place behind the mighty waterfall, or staring straight up into the outstretched arms of a Ponderosa pine.
— Karen Spears Zacharias, author of Will Jesus Buy Me a Double-Wide?

We always need fresh words. Particularly in the areas of life Wheeler’s work approaches. Faith, mystery, relationship. David’s words provide new doorways through which to walk into familiar places.
— Justin McRoberts, singer and songwriter

A collection of rather extraordinary poems.
— Glynn Young, contributing editor for The High Calling

Excerpts

Read four poems included in the collection.

Also Available
Interact with the poet and Contingency Plans readers at the Contingency Plans Facebook Page