Guidance and Grace at Work (new manuscript)

“This wonderful book is inspiring, useful and deeply needed in our perilous times when our hearts yearn to focus and to deepen." —Matthew Fox, author of The Reinvention of Work

“Any worker, and in particular nurses, doctors, social workers, chaplains, administrators and other healthcare workers, will greatly benefit from Dr. Burack’s thoughtful and nurturing [reflections].   These inspiring verses...enrich us and help us to bring healing back into healthcare, healing for ourselves as well as for those entrusted in our care.”—Jurgen Schwing, Spiritual Care Manager, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center and Hospice.

"[A]n innovative approach...for people facing the world of work. Each of his [chapters] could serve as a useful foundation for meditation, reflection, and self-transformation. ”— Michael Lerner, author of The Politics of Meaning

"I cannot think of a more valuable or useful book than this highly charged, simple and wise work that will help everyone infuse their daily lives with meaning.  What do we need now, after all, than a transformed work place?”—Andrew Harvey, author of The Way of Passion and The Direct Path

D. H. Lawrence's Language of Sacred Experience (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

"A remarkable analysis of D. H. Lawrence's major novels....It is both solidly persuasive--with superb research behind it--and refreshingly original.  The first chapters contain the best new writing on Lawrence I've seen in recent years."-- Dr. Virginia Hyde, author of The Risen Adam: D. H. Lawrence's Revisionist Typology, and former President of the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America

Songs to My Beloved: 22 Love Poems (Sacred Arts Press, 2004)

"These poems are a living testament to the power of love. What is so remarkable about Burack's passionate poems to his beloved is their power to manifest truth. In order to receive love one must be able to give love and the act of writing these poems is an act of surrender....The poems cut through self-inflicted borders of self-doubt and inspire us to love fearlessly, honestly and openly in the tradition of Rumi, Mirabai and Edna St.Vincent Millay."--Genny Lim, poet, playwright, and author of Child of War and Winter Place.

"Heart Opening!"--Mary Risala Laird, artist and author of Lebanese Mountain Cookery

Creative Power (new manuscript)

"The process of reading Creative Power, taking the class, and writing poetry was truly cathartic for me.  It sparked a dramtic mind shift in my relationship to poetic expression....In the past, every time I went to write poetry or an essay, I stopped.   I felt my inner critic come alive, telling me I am not good with words.  This would cause me anxiety, which took me out of the creative process.  Now, I have developed a new enthusiasm for words, for rhnyme, metaphor and meter.  How exciting it is to play with words!  For the first time in a writing assignment, I let go of fear and allowed myself to immerse fully into the process and in doing so, I experience freedom, freedom to create."  --M.B. Weiss, artist and sculptor

"The weekend of exploration in 'Creative Power' reminds me of driving to a beloved and beautiful location with a friend, instead of me, at the wheel.   Free of responsibility to maintain control of the car, I can view familiar roads in a different, more holistic perspective.  I notice more birds and treeds, finer detail.  Colors are more penetrating.  I have entered into relationship with the landscape; it has a purchase on my soul.  And then my friend turns onto a road I not only never have taken, but didn't even know existed.  WHAM!  I am in unknown terrain, seeing with entirely fresh vision, surprised and delighted to find a new route to a place I care about, a place which has meaning for me." D.E. Wuesthoff, writer