Announcing my next book:
Time, and Times, and Half a Time

My next poetry book, my tenth, is coming out soon. This is my most intimate work so far … the poems were written in the first two years after our daughter’s passing

As a poet, it is my discipline to write a poem each day.  My primary criterion as I write is that my poems be deeply honest – that they explore the landscape of truth, as precisely as I can understand it, at whatever level of experience is accessible to me at the moment. Therefore, my daily poems, when I look back on them, depict the terrain of my life more vividly than a diary might.

Some poems in this collection reflect the altered state I/we were in, and the changed perspective with which I found myself viewing everything. Many show the spiritual support that allowed me to find meaning in the place my life was shattered. Many are a tribute to our daughter’s wonderful spirit.

I hope this book will be meaningful to others  – those who have experienced deep loss, those who know deep love, and those who yearn to understand the experience of others, to stand with them.

My book is illustrated by my friend susanna maria weiss, who captures the spirit of our daughter Heather, and of the experience of this passage.

I’ll post more details soon  –