TERRI ERICKSON & ERIC WEIL - NC POETS

Our Sunday afternoons are often given over to popular poetry programs, and today is no exception.  Three talented NC poets bring you their latest works.

Terri Erickson brings us TELLING TALES OF DUSK.   Eric Weil reads from RETURNING FROM MARS.  We regret that Linda Ferguson (DIRT SANDWICH) cannot be present as previously advertised.

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Telling Tales of Dusk (Paperback)

By Terri Kirby Erickson

$12.00

ISBN-13: 9780982441633
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Press 53, 8/2009

Whether writing about butter mints, the daisy chain of a group of daughters locked arm in arm, or a man burying his dead wife, Terri Kirby Erickson's poems have the characteristics we all strive for in our poetry. These lyrical narratives are sensuous, tender, evocative, and familiar, bringing to life things we've all noticed but lacked the wisdom to put into words. - Scott Owens, editor of The Wild Goose Poetry Review

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Dirt Sandwich (Paperback)

By Linda Annas Ferguson

$12.00

ISBN-13: 9780982441664
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Press 53, 8/2009

Linda Annas Ferguson knows-to borrow Wallace Stevens' formulation-that "Death is the mother of beauty." She proclaims in one of her poems, "Everything / is drenched with endings, alive with dying." Her work exists at the shimmering mid-point between an urge to celebrate the world's beauty and a pained recognition that this beauty is mutable. She recognizes that our being only temporary inhabitants of this life is not a problem to solve but a mystery to feel-and a mystery that compels us to make poems. As she wryly puts it, she is "dying to write / a decent poem." Linda Annas Ferguson has done more than that. She has given us a book of tender, clear-eyed, complex meditations, a lovely book by a poet whose vision we can trust. - Chris Forhan, author of BLACK LEAPT IN.

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