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.
Cold overcast morning
the neighborhood, no one dares
to get out of bed.
Overhead
thrum of rubber bands—
wings of Canada geese.
Autumn forest
scat, paw prints, hollowed out hives
but never the bear!
Poems from my project called Plea for Wildlife about the endangered species in Del Norte will be on display. Funded by Upstate California Creative Corp. #upstatecaliforniacreativecorps #upstateartists
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
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.