The poems of Exultation act as shofars to the soul, calling upon us to remember: to feel, sense, know in our very beings that we are connected through our cycles to all that is alive…. Read these words aloud. Chant, sing, intone them and experience a spirit that comforts and quiets, uplifts and inspires all at the same time. This quartet is a masterpiece.

Vicki Dello Joio
Chi Kung Master Teacher, Founder of the Way of Joy


The seasons perfecting the woman who prays, the woman who prays perfecting the seasons – these poems by Monza Naff inspire hope and humility that reverberate in our senses like bell tones.

Ann Jauregui, Ph.D.
Co-Founder of Marin Creek (Multidisciplinary Healing) Center, and Faculty, School of Clinical Psychology, John F. Kennedy University

 

These poems of Exultation are the modern ode at its best and provide a deep well of reassurance for all who hope for healing.

Marjorie D. Lewis, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Texas Christian University


These poetic prayers express the classically tragic feeling of life, that life moves toward both endings and new beginnings, toward death and new life. Where Ecclesiastes saw that while “there is time for all things” yet “all is vanity and striving after the wind,” Naff sees within the transitoriness of life the promise of fulfillments in the eternal now, “until I recognize eternity in single breaths….”

Glenn Routt, D.D.
Professor Emeritus of Theology, Brite Divinity School

 

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