Familie

Inside every mother is a host of thoughts that can never be said out loud. But wouldn't we be less lonely if we could? Katherine North brings a rare level of honesty to the experience of motherhood by welcoming all her selves to the table, even the ones a "good mother" is never supposed to admit to. Tracing her journey from single parent to blending families, she shares the joys and agony of loving her family while trying to hold on to herself. Everyone who's ever felt torn by the conflicting demands of love, parenthood, and creativity- while making a life and a living- will find themselves in these pages.

The Road We Take is an encore to Barry Lee Swanson's critically acclaimed, best-selling novel Still Points. A poetic portrait of a journey spanning the past seven decades, it provides the reader with a first-hand view of one baby boomer's life experiences.From a college student caught in the quagmire of the Viet Nam War to the halls of collegiate academia to a senior citizen facing irrelevancy while considering the inevitable end of life, the author explores themes of loss, love, contemplation, and celebration with honesty and authenticity.His poetry displays a combination of humor, irony, and passion, riddled with midwestern common sense and sentimentality, as he examines the complexities of family, education, romance, religion, and divisive national issues.In the book's title poem, the author claims he is just "a common boy from Illinois." Swanson is far from common. The Road We Take is a tour de force, a book of poetry that is both relevant and timeless.

Die titelgebende Novelle birgt ein Geheimnis, das sich um das Cover-Gemälde rankt. Erinnerung ist das große Thema auch der anderen Geschichten. Sie erzählen von unerwarteten Begegnungen, mal humorvoll, mal ironisch, mal melancholisch, mal wehmütig, allemal unterhaltsam.

"Eve Redeemed-A Woman's Journey" maps a woman's life through three separate stages. The poems in the 1st section deal with significant early life trauma which shapes the woman's emotional landscape for many years. The poems here do not hold back in description of very painful events which left lasting scars. The last poem in this section deals with fear of dying.The second section contains more prosy poems which reflect growth and understanding and more awareness of the world around her. Her inner pain is no longer so visible and aids her in feeling more empathy for others and better understanding of human foibles.The third section contains more lyrical poems which add more magic/mysticism to reflect a much happier and at last an accepting place to gain inner peace. The woman's perspective and awareness of the world's physical beauty (nature) open her up emotionally to a place she hasn't been before.The writer here hopes all women can identify to some degree that early difficulties/challenges do not have to define their entire lives and real change is possible and very rewarding when you arrive there.

An illustrated gift-book of poems for a person you love, even if that person is you."Technically brilliant, emotionally beguiling and, at times, startling."-A View from HereThe Light of Love is the third book in the Twelve Poems to Inspire Gift Book series, a range of gift-books for festivals like Mother's Day and Christmas, as well as milestones we all experience, including loss and new beginnings. The Light of Love celebrates Valentine's Day-and love in all its forms.These twelve poems delve into the two sides of love-the euphoria and contentment we adore as well as the moments that test us along the way-while encouraging us to celebrate the full spectrum of life's emotions viewed through a lens of love.In accessible, sometimes conversational, language the poet draws from her own marriage, friendships and family life, and reflects on love not just as collaborative emotion but an interior one we should also direct at ourselves.The poems in this collection are written to be reread often. Musing over their evocative yet accessible language, the reader will find comfort in the tender but powerful messages that only true love can provide.Strikingly real, with powerful candor and passion, the book contains two sections, Heartbreak and Heartease, each poem spectacularly illustrated by pictures the poet co-created with the AI artist app, Dream.Whoever needs this gift from you, these moving assertions of passion and pain, heart and healing will move you and reconnect you to the meaning of true love.A thoughtful gift for lovers on Valentine's Day-or for a loved one any day of the year.

"Michael Dylan Welch once quipped that, 'if haiku is a finger pointing at the moon, senryu is a finger poking you-or someone else-in the ribs.' In his wonderful new collection of senryu and longer poems, Robert Deluty manages to capture both the humor and pathos of these always fraught relationships - parent/child, teacher/student, doctor/patient - as in this senryu: Rose Cohen asking/ her forty-year-old gay son/ if it's a phase. In each of his poems, Deluty delivers what R. H. Blyth called, 'moments of vision into, not the nature of things, but the nature of man...as in a flash of lightning.'"-Ronald W. Pies, M.D., author of The Unmoved Mover and The Levtov Trilogy."Robert Deluty's poetry shows why parents, teachers, and doctors need to be careful, observant, and vigilant about how they process the world. For they give and receive in ways that should help children, students, and patients to grow - to make their lives better for themselves and for us all. With poignancy, humor, and wisdom, Deluty draws out our innermost feelings and thoughts so that we may become truer to ourselves and others."-Joseph L. DeVitis, Ph.D., editor of The Future of American Higher Education: How Today's Public Intellectuals Frame the Debate"Robert Deluty's new book serves up in abundance the keenly observant humor we have come to expect, springing from the inherent comedy of the human condition and viewed invariably through the lens of his tender compassion. Likewise, he empathizes with the vulnerability and grief we encounter in others and ourselves. We are fully human, after all, only in our mixed-up connections with each other. Like the six-year-old in one of Deluty's senryu, who fills in the boxes of a crossword puzzle with tiny hearts, this book inserts love at every opportunity."-George H. Northrup, Ph.D., author of Wave into Wave, Light into Light: Poems and Places

The Invented Mother explores cultural notions and daily realities of our most elemental relationships, as well as gender, sexuality, nature and creation. It's poems are full of wonder: What is a mother? What is natural and what is constructed? How do words define us? Here, acts of care, creativity and violence are subjects that begin with awe of the natural world. Written in a variety of forms, animals, food, color and light animate verse that evokes the mysteries of love on a changing planet.

The thistle plant has deep roots and can flourish even in very poor soil. Its flowers are beautiful but almost impossible to gather. Because of its "barbs" it is seldom touched. In many ways, life's journey is like a thistle - beautiful to behold but painful to grasp.Most of these poems were written to make you laugh, cry, remember, bring you solace and/or inspiration. A few of them are intended to "prick" the conscience of society on certain issues that are also deep rooted and seldom touched.Come, journey with me, through thistles and time.-Joan Tenner

Seeking Grace is a verse memoir narrated by the mother of a daughter in a religious cult. Based on a true experience in the '80s, each poem reveals the choices and dilemmas of parents rescuing a child caught in an outpouring of words targeted to seduce, induce and ensnare

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Ellen White Rook is a poet and contemplative arts teacher who divides her time between upstate New York and Maine. Retired from a career as an information technology manager, she now offers writing workshops and leads retreats that combine meditation, movement, and writing. She also teaches Japanese flower arranging in the Sogetsu tradition. Ellen holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Lindenwood University and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Suspended is her first collection of poetry. She is married and has three adult daughters. To read more of her work, visit her website at ellenwhiterook.com.The poems in Suspended surprise and stretch the imagination, delve into edges and margins, mystery. In these in-between places Ellen White Rook seeks clarity that aligns with essential elements of being. Loss and hope intermingle - "the oracle leaves / footprints in water that turn to ice." Sadness is mitigated by creating: "we cannot help but make another story even in the infinity of absence." Humor is part of this whole. The poet wakes hearing an "unruly bird" in the night, only to discover the noise is - I'll let you find that out for yourself.- Katrinka Moore, author of Diminuendo¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Join White Rook's "finite but expanding" journey-what she calls "the edge of me"-where she "thinks about the unstoppable." Discover "the sound of light/enveloping/the moon" in a thrush.Listen with her to "the chirrup of the spheres" in the night. Witness "fires, big as nations." Suspended explores "memories of what we ignored," ancient and personal.White Rook's collection positions us in that liminal space in which we each find ourselves-in that transitional moment of the present, conscious of our forebears, speculating about the future.-Dawn Marar, Author of Efflorescence¿¿¿¿¿In Ellen White Rook's collection Suspended...words spoken hang/in myths/knife-silver light sits on murky water/not a reflection but the place/ between object and impression/at the edge...The poems begin with the death of a father and end with the birth of a grandchild, and in between, ask and elaborate in elegantly crafted language and startling imagery the central questions of being: What is it to be "awake?" How can we find what pulses under thought, the liminal spaces where new truths and new vision can be perceived? How can we see brokenness and death as a portal to a new state of being? How do we live life with the knowledge of death to come? In "Use Caution," the speaker asks, Is there a seed I might nurture/in my hard self/the way bones cultivate/marrow? And the poems shift from the body as landscape to landscape as the body, as the poet looks for what might last while also perceiving disruptions and brokenness as windows to beauty and new being.-Susan E. Oringel, author of My Coney Island

Inspired by the special bond between mother and child, Bell's poems search for meaning in a world of misconception. They begin with small everyday moments and end with a shift in understanding that not only enlightens, but leaves you wondering.From quiet nights reflecting on the sound of her child's smile, to viewing the world from the perspective of a potted tree dreaming of being rooted into true mother earth, A Tide Should Be Able to Rise Despite Its Moon is a collection of raw, honest, modern-day fables that remind readers to look deeper, feel more, and let the world speak for itself.

I am the "humbler poet,"Humble in words and humble in thought.I pen in a simple way,Whether ever to be read, or not.Who is to say what is pleasing?Who is to judge what is trite?The greatest poet on earth might beA man never taught to write.Excerpt from the poem AVOCATION byJoan Tenner(She is "The Humbler Poet.")

In Minjerribah, Brisbane poet Madeleine Onraet reveals poems written over twenty years visiting North Stradbroke Island with her growing family. Minjerribah is a personal response to this unique landscape, teaching us to listen to the wisdom of its timeless beauty. Dolphin, whale, kookaburra and turtle grace these pages as the natural world guides the poet's family deeper in their connection with one another and life itself.

In All My Salt propels the reader through the examinations of the after-effects of abuse, the hardness of trauma, and the difficulties of ill-fated relationships. This poetry collection is sharp and biting, angry and raw, and unrelenting in its unflinching honesty. In All My Salt is a deeply personal collection written by a poet who gives voice to her hardness and experiences that emerge from trauma.

There's a lot to be said about kudzu. In the South, it's everywhere. You can't kill it. You can try, but you will drive yourself crazy. It's resilient. Just like me. Just like you. May we sprawl unflinchingly out of the dark corners of our lives and bloom.<BR>A Kudzu Vine of Blood and Bone is Tristan Tuttle's debut poetry collection that takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery through motherhood, nature, and the spirituality that binds it all together. Weaving memoir into poetry, Tristan moves from quiet moments in the pine thickets to wild adventure in the Gulf of Mexico and discovers that "any dirt is fertile ground when you know what you're made of."

Double Helix is in three parts: the end of a thirty-year marriage; a son, who has struggled with substance abuse for more than twenty years; and discovering that the man who raised me was not my biological father and how that affected my thoughts and feelings toward the mother and father who raised me. Both fathers and my mother had died, so I wrote these poems as a way to make sense of a mystery.

This collection of free-verse poetry travels, along with the author, across her lifetime-from high school through college and graduate school, past marriage, divorce, and the death of a parent, deep into raising children, always finding a new path of understanding and deeply thinking about the inner and external worlds.There is an element of "exclaiming" in these offertories, an understanding that even imbalance can bring about a new equilibrium in one's life. These poems are declarations of how the author has found truth through observations and language. Starting with the imagery of bridges, the poetry moves through the terrain of mythology, of landscapes, of train rides, of seasons, of loss, of hope, and finally, of understanding how one comes to see one's life as a series of crossings and intersections.

Fred wächst glücklich in einer Feldmaus-Familie mit seinen Schwestern auf. Wenn die Mutter spannende Geschichten von der großen und weiten Welt erzählt, hört Fred stets interessiert zu.Eines Tages ist seine Neugier so groß, dass er sich heimlich auf den Weg macht, um die nahe Stadt und deren Bewohner näher kennenzulernen. Dort erlebt er manche Abenteuer, bis er der alten Hausmaus Frieda begegnet. Diese verwöhnt ihn nicht nur, sondern sorgt auch dafür, dass sein Heimweh nach seiner Familie gestillt wird. Fred ist zum Schluss überglücklich, wieder zu Hause zu sein. Und Frieda kommt jetzt oft zu Besuch und bringt den Mäusekindern dann gerne kleine Geschenke mit...Herausgeber: Hans-Jürgen Sträter, Adlerstein Verlag

Walk Deep's devoted, interconnected journey toward authenticity is alive with deep feeling. Like the mycorrhizal roots of an old-growth forest, these poems weave self, nature, and family within a living word-web." -Annie Finch, Poet, Writing Teacher, Spells: New and Selected Poems and A Poet's Craft

P.M. Draper's poems in After Pyre explore change, loss, and unfathomable heartache, while offering the reader respite with her skillful verse that is not only refreshing, but achingly funny when you least expect it. From the tragic tale of suicide by fire to poems about squirrel sex and the Kung Fu Nuns of Kathmandu, After Pyre will take the reader on quite a ride.¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ "...a stunning testament that, out of chaos and ruin, we humans are endlessly capable of discovering the power to live fully to touch the bones of every dream." -Skipwith Coale "...slant, whimsical and deeply satisfying."-Sally Naylor, author of Synapse Flies into Startle