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The book gave me feelings I never new I had.
This book touched my heart.Knowing that people actually lived a hardlife by having Polio was heart breaking.Some people cared and othersdidn't."Wings and Roots" taught me how to care about others. Knowing a book can teach people how to act tells you something.Peopleneed our help everyday, Jennie helped Kit and gave him courage, while hegave her strength.While I was reading the book I realized that people canall teach eachother.I mow look forward to meeting people and helpingothers.The auther did a great job writing this book and bringing outdifferent types of feelings.

The book gave me feelings I never new I had.
This book touched my heart.Knowing that people actually lived a hardlife by having Polio was heart breaking.Some people cared and othersdidn't."Wings and Roots" taught me how to care about others. Knowing a book can teach people how to act tells you something.Peopleneed our help everyday, Jennie helped Kit and gave him courage, while hegave her strength.While I was reading the book I realized that people canall teach eachother.I mow look forward to meeting people and helpingothers.The auther did a great job writing this book and bringing outdifferent types of feelings. ... Read more

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"Fire is Favorable to the Dreamer" is comprised of new poems, both exquisite and extraordinary, by a poet with many awards. These poems are brave and original, powerful and heart breaking. The poems are divided into four sections and several of the poems have previously appeared in some of our finest poetry publications. ... Read more

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Don't miss this wonderful book!
FIRE IS FAVORABLE TO THE DREAMER is a lively and interesting book of poems.  These are not poems so obscure that the reader has no idea what the poet is saying but poems about love and loss.  There are personal poems of love and loss, but much of the book is narrative poems about real people such as Mary Todd Lincoln, Picasso, or the sailors of the Russian submarine the Kursk.  In contrast to these poems, some of the work is surreal and has the aura of myth or fairy tale.  This is a collection of immense breadth and depth.  I meant to open it and read a few poems but found myself reading on and on. I can't recommend it highly enough!

Candor & Light: A Review of Fire Is Favorable to the Dreamer
If you buy one poetry book in the year 2003, make it Fire Is Favorable to the Dreamer, by Susan Terris. Sorrows of everyday life discover their niches, then move beyond the mundane into a world where grief itself teaches us to harbor the light within. Among my favorite poems were "Breaking Away From the Family" in which the author remembers her father's death: "Mother's pork sausage fingers" and the "stiff portrait" of five faces left behind.

Terris is a poet with the gift of understatement and grace. Stark, emotional realities are made into art and laced with a hint of mystery. Her readers will meet death, cancer, the roles of men and women, and growing up -- all in compelling new ways. Section three (entitled Blue Roses) is reminiscent of Tennessee Williams' famous play The Glass Menagerie, where light affords studious appraisal of one's life and mortal limits. Terris is one of the most profound and eloquent new voices in Amercian poetry today.

Janet I. Buck, author of Calamity's Quilt ... Read more

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NATURAL DEFENSES, by Susan Terris, is a book about love and loss, a kind of tone poem where the music of the words and flow of ideas carries the reader forward from the beginning to the end. There is humor, zest, and a sense of discovery. This is a bookwritten by a skilled poet who sees her life and the lives of others as a work-in-progress. ... Read more

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excellent poetry
This is a poet not afraid to tackle difficult subjects.She pulls it off by crisp, smart, musical attention to language and detail. You learn something from her poems, and you read them again to enjoy her images, her narratives, her explorations of subject and the power of her words. You can't go wrong here. ... Read more

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Devan's Book Review
I thought this was a great book and it was a very creative and
imaginative book.I think the author did a wonderful job on this book and had some really great ideas for this book.I hope everybody will read this story.This book was about a girl who didn't like her life at all and one day she starts to scratch her arm and when she gets home sha finds out she has the chickenpox.So she cuts off all her hair. ... Read more

Book Description
Runes, A Review of Poetry: Storm is 100 of the best poems on the subject. Yes, some weather, but also a storm of bees, one of ants, storms of sorrow and love; rough seas of all kinds. Well-known poets such as Shirley Kaufman, Marge Piercy, Pattiann Rogers, Barbara Hamby, Virgil Suarez, Rita Dove and Norman Dubie alongside others only slightly less well known, and even some poets for whom Runes is their first publication.Read it and see why Clayton Couch, poet and editor of "Slide Reality" says, "Runes is one of the most impressive new print potery journals to hit the shelves in years." Or "The Literary Magazine Review, "what a treasure trove of contemporary verse." ... Read more

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my response to this excellent poetry collection
Susan Terris's "Curved Space"is a stunning achievement.She is a remarkably connected poet, with freshness of vision, skill and intelligenceHer poems not only reflect , her conviction and integrity but the ability to transform all of these superlative qualities into poetry thatn enchant her readers. "Curved Space"is overflowing with rigorously crafted, strongly felt poetry that is also earthy, celebratory and full of wisdom. Her immense knowledge and imagination lend authenticity to her work.There are so many layers, so many levels to explore and a fearlessness that makes white rafting,shooting rapids and mountain climbing seem like child's play."Curved Space" is a work of immense courage, sensitivity and God-given talent that make every page of this book an adventure, a pleasure and a discovery.Ruth Daigon (editor of Poets On:) author of "Between One Future And the Next"(Papier-Mache Press). ... Read more

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CONTENTS: Forty Poems in homage to Forty American Poets ranging from Emily Dickinson to Mary Oliver, Wallace Stevens to Robert Hass. The author says "What I have tried to do in these seven line stanzas is incorporate ten to twelve words which evoke the vocabulary of the poet whose first name is used; but I haven't attempted to copy the style or rewrite the poetry. Instead,EDITION: Limited to 320 handsewn copies letterpress printed from handset Monotype Goudy Old Style onto recycled and acid free paper: 75 lb. Classic Laid text Natural White with 80 lb. Camel Hair cover and Royal Laid Rose end wrapper. ... Read more

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Poetic License
A magical & unique book of poetry.This may have been inspired by the work of other poets but its voice is distinct.The lyric and musical nature of these seven-line poems is quite wonderful. This book deserves to be read! ... Read more

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"Runes, A Review of Poetry: Mystery" is an annual of 100 poems/poets on the theme of mystery in its many forms. It includes local, national, international poems as well as poems in translation. Runes has received extensive praise for the quality of the poems, the cohesiveness of the presentation of those poems, and the beauty and elegance of the book design. ... Read more

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An eclectic collection of original free-verse
Collaboratively compiled and edited by C.B. Follett and Susan Terris, Runes: A Review Of Poetry is an eclectic collection of original free-verse by a very wide assortment of quiet talented poets. From reverence for the seasons, to practical difficulties of daily life, to solemn homages to the dead, Runes presents a series of vivid, inspirational, and memorable readings. Jesus in America: He stands on the corner/of Market Street/with hands agape at his sides./Each Tear from his eye reflects/the city's starvation./He opens his doors, the robes/of his church,/to reveal the neon heart/blinking through its thorns;/he looks up the huge golden arcs/of fast food reaching for heaven/from across the street./He is the bun of God, the cola of deliverance. Dancing Bear ... Read more

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You Can Find this at Biblio.com
Kind of expensive, but probably worth it!

I wish I could find this book!
I, too, used to read this book over and over!Wish it were still in print, can't even find it in the library.Amazon, please see if you can get this published again!Thank you!

Really good for young readers
I used to read this book over and over in elementary school!I just couldn't get enough of it!A story about a poor family that moves to San Francisco and the girl's mother makes extra money by jarring pickles, whichshe has to help with and she always smells like pickles, so theneighborhood kids start calling her "Pickle".She eventuallyfinds a friend in the "witch" who lives across the street. Classic story about trying to fit in and wanting to be with the"in" crowd. ... Read more

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Poetry. Holocaust Studies. "Each poem in this marvelous collection is special and perfect in itself. Appearing in this almost devastatingly emotional work are a variety of people in different countries, times and tragic situations. Susan Terris' unique craft and vision illuminate and intensify the poetry until it goes far beyond the original intent and then we take over. This book must be read by everyone with a conscience, a sense of history, a need to know. Whether it is an adult who experienced the Holocaust or knew of its existence or a young person on the edge of knowing, this book is a gift and a revelation" --Ruth Daigon. "A very powerful collection" -- Robert Sward. Susan Terris lives in San Francisco. She has had 21 books of fiction published and her poetry is widely published in such magazines as Antioch Review, Calyx and Nimrod. ... Read more