The Calming

By Jamie Oliveira

Written while in travel and in transition, The Calming evokes the feeling of roads, trains, new environments, and new sensations as the dialogue between the inner world and the external world approach communion. Oliveira's work is often existential, sometimes questioning, sometimes resolving, but always with feeling. Threads of old grief and contented detachment accompany honest, naked illustrations and prose, weaving together a collection on the border between the ascetic contemplations of a mystic and the vulnerable confessions of a woman who dreams and loves. "Jamie Oliveira has always been able to bring the achingly human and the cosmic together, her poetry being the meeting point. The illustrations in her first book In Passing were beautiful, but the pieces in The Calming have reached a new level of rawness and honesty. This book feels like a triumph over loss. It feels like a discovery within oneself. Both ethereal and grounding at the same time. I feel as if I am experiencing her personal journey with her. She does not fail to inspire." - Emery Allen, author of Become. and Soft Human

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1537441884
• ISBN13: 9781537441887
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"