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.
Walking in the woods
scat, paw prints, hollowed out hives
but never the bear!
Autumn leaves scatter
like broken shards of a cup
across the forest floor.
Cold overcast morning
the neighborhood, no one dares
 to get out of bed.
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“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.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
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.