Divine Disturbances is a collection of poems by Shane Manier about vulnerability, grace and the disturbances in our lives that make us. These poems are based off of her personal experience with adrenaline disorder, a condition that happens when a body is caught in fight or flight for too long. GO TO CART

Reviews:

“In Divine Disturbance, Shane Manier embraces the halo under the horns, as if to say they are the same, or misunderstood, or maybe to say neither exists, to say this is where humanity is most visible; in the things that hold us darkly. The poems seem alive, conscious of themselves, always breaking the fourth wall to ask ‘you know this is about you right? Us?’ The poems want to “pull the smooth cloak off the room, expose how afraid we all are.” Insightful and exciting work!” - Jay Ward, National Spoken Word Champion

Divine Disturbances trouble the waters with verse that realigns, reimagines, and recreates the energetic metaphorical pulsations of disturbances and discordance. These poems are a landscape unto themselves of nakedness, vulnerability, or “it’s the nothingness yelling its absence.” Shane Manier calls out the madness of the Muse; kisses the surfaces that dig and bury themselves deep. These verses are evidence of her truth that life does often flash before, over, and underneath us. This collection creates portals into the vulnerability of that nakedness, reminding us that the messiest of truths is sometimes a controlled spill or a tidal wave. Divine Disturbances invites the reader to be keen witness to poetics that stitch and shift messages of survival, fragility, and self-awareness.

- Jaki Shelton Green, NC Poet Laureate

Shane's work resonates with compassion. Her poetry dances through forms, taking shape according to the need of the moment. At times her words live in ordered verses, and at other times they are expressed in lines as broken as her subjects. Her ability to see beyond the veneer of daily life and reach into the humanity that lives just under the surface is at once a reminder to readers to recognize the value and beauty of our shared experience and a gentle assurance that we are never alone. - T. Shontelle MacQueen, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist