Poetry. STILL YOU gathers together poems that invite us into private rooms of suffering and solace. In these profoundly personal stanzas, we recognize our own encounters with nature's inevitable blows. By turns we fall ill, we recover, we care for a loved one, we prepare for loss. At these times poetry can open the door to the sickroom and offer a potent physic for the isolation that comes with illness. Here you will find a wife's fierce resistance to cancer's attack as well as the courage to accept a feared diagnosis. You will find poems of humor, joy, gratitude, and consolation. Ultimately, a resilient spirit binds us together. As poet Gail Tierney says, "whatever it may be, you're not alone."

Still You: Poems of Illness & Healing

Literature & Fiction

Baranow, Joan

Poetry

Wolf Ridge Press

Poetry. As poet Richard Jones says, BREATH ENOUGH is "a book of courage and consolation" in telling of the loss of a sister to brain cancer. Yet at the same time the beauty of Teter's poetry tells a different story, one that can't help but affirm a life-giving spirit. These are unflinching poems committed to the power of love and compassion equal to the ravages of illness. Teter has entered the kingdom of disease and come back to share with us the knowledge only loss can give.

Breath Enough

Teter, Vivian

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SLEEP NOT SLEEP

Ellis, Harvey

Poetry. "PASSING LOVE is deceptive in its down-to-earth honesty and simplicity. Rick Benjamin's clear-cut language brims and sings, and one is taken to the edge of reckoning before he or she realizes what has happened. There's a needful celebration of everyday life at the core of PASSING LOVE"--Yusef Komunyakaa.

Passing Love

Benjamin, Rick

Poetry. "It's amazing how legacies of family and habitation may be so neatly shaped and contained in lilting stanzas."—Naomi Shihab Nye "It is a clear listening, this music, to the heart-intelligence moving through us."—Coleman Barks

Floating World

Poetry. A charming and compelling collection of poems, lovingly assembled by its editor after years of being knocked off his feet by poems he encountered in the process of teaching poetry at The Fromm Institute of San Francisco and making a growing stack of them on his desk. After years of careful selection the stack has been converted into a beautiful anthology, fit for future generations who seek the inspiration that the art of poetry has given us over the years. "All I can say to David Watts is 'Thank You!' for having put this anthology together. You let the poems speak for themselves but you also chose wisely so that, together, their sum is larger than its parts."—Eileen Tabios Contributors include: Rumi, Robert Hass, Sylvia Plath, Tomas Transtromer, Jane Hirshfield, Miklos Radnoti, Derek Walcott, A. A. Milne, Len Roberts, Brenda Hillman, Dean Young, Robert Hayden, Billy Collins, William Butler Yeats, Yannis Ritsos, Alicia Ostriker, William Stafford, Francis Ponge, Denise Levertov, Kabir, William Carlos Williams, Anna Akhmatova, David Watts, Sharon Olds, James Wright, Emily Dickinson, and Galway Kinnell.

Poems for the Time Capsule

Watts, David

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