The Wild Essential : Kelsay Books : 9781947465190 : 1947465198 : 04 Sep 2017 : From "You Are a Mountain" to "Songbird," The Wild Essential "covers, no, seals, no, reclaims" what it means to be human, to love, to be flawed, to be alive. Claudine Nash assures us that "there is earth in you" and that we can "feel the infinite within." As she writes in the title poem: "loosen these concepts that limit and bind, touch only my truest skin." That is what her words do. They let us forget our names, the labels, the places and day we've come from. We find through her wisdom, kindness and grace how nature lives within us and what it means to feel a deeper, more beautiful rain. Julia Klatt Singer, Author of Untranslatable, A Tangled Path to Heaven and In the Dreamed of Places Claudine Nash invites her readers to return to what is natural and instinctual, and to use these lessons in trueness to live. With reflection and awareness, we find ourselves suppressing societal chatter and self-doubt; the