Available at http://www.futurecycle.org/Catalog.
Tah-dah!
It’s here! My first full-length poetry collection all the way to just about there is now available from FutureCycle Press: www.futurecycle.org. Just click on my book in the upper left corner and you’ll get to my GoodReads page for a sneak peek inside. From the cover image you can click through to Amazon. Alternately, use this link: all the way to just about there. NOTE: If you order the paperback, you get the Kindle version for free as well. Woo hoo!
This collection has been a long time coming. About fifteen years, to be exact. I started writing these poems when my kids were young and kept right on going, through the Iraq war (still a thing—dammit), through my kids’ adolescence, and every single season. You’ll have to look inside to see what I mean. It covers the tiny spaces–between us, between corn kernels, between molecules–and the huge spaces…between us, between countries, between the stars. Read it to see what I mean.
I guarantee what you’ll find in those spaces is a little bit of you. ♥
Gratitude
I have to give a huge shout out to Diane Kistner of #futurecycle @futurecycle.org, because she has been wonderful to work with. When I sent her the cover image I hoped would grace my book, she not only loved the image, she made it into something gorgeous and inviting. I believe the word she used was “deep-dreamed.” Once you hold the book in your hands, you’ll see and feel how the velvety matte finish makes for a gorgeous bookshelf companion you’ll want to hang on to. Which is a testament to her skills as a book designer. Check out all the other titles FutureCycle has brought into the world and you’ll see what I mean. It is no small feat to make an attractive book cover.
So please, if you are looking for an oasis to refresh your senses and sense of wonder, please order a copy. We all have to share this big, wonderful, awful, terrible, joyous experience of being human. I’m all in. You?
