Peruse poetry books and chapbooks by Terri Glass below. Topics include spirituality, sensory experiences, and the beauty of the natural world now in decline. Signed copies available on request.
They arrived:
White crowned, Golden-crowned sparrows—
Winter’s mark
December in the park—
river so high, air so chill
my inner thighs freeze
Could barely see them
standing in the cornfield
a hundred sandhill cranes
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
Peruse poetry books and chapbooks by Terri Glass below. Topics include spirituality, sensory experiences, and the beauty of the natural world now in decline. Signed copies available on request.
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.