James Goertel

Manitou Ontario James Goertel

James Goertel's Manitou Ontario concerns itself with an arrival-both spiritual and physical-upon the shores of Lake Ontario where the poet now resides. Envisioned and curated as an exploration of identity within the context of mise en scène, Manitou Ontario serves as a reflective landscape for poems of spirit and speculation which reach across time and place to explore the sacred and the secular, though they remain rooted in geographer John Kirtland Wright's concept of "geopiety" or what the Algonquin called "manitou"-the spiritual life force manifested within the natural world.