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Becoming the Blue Heron
Terri Kirby Erickson's poems have appeared in hundreds of publications including Poet's Market, Ted Kooser's "American Life in Poetry," The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor, and Verse Daily, and have earned the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, Atlanta Review International Publication Prize, a Gold Medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and a Nautilus Silver Book Award. In Becoming the Blue Heron, Erickson's fifth collection of poems, she proves again why she has secured her spot in poetry's lexicon. From personal insights to front porch stories, these poems read like a conversation with a dear friend who tells it like she sees it in simple words that only a deep and wise understanding can bring together.
Book Details
- Publisher: Press 53
- Publish Date: Mar 27th, 2017
- Pages: 118
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.28in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9781941209530
- Categories: • American - General• Women Authors
Praise for this book
Open Terri Kirby Erickson's book, Becoming the Blue Heron, and enter a world of light. You will encounter the warmth of loving parents, a granny dragged by a cow, the intimacy of nature, and the shock of unimaginable loss. Beauty and brokenness nestle side by side in this lovely collection. Each moment glimmers even more brightly against the shadow of sorrow, and the poet never loses sight of a realm where everyone is whole. We begin to believe, as she does, that "here, there/is only goodness and mercy, the light of a million stars . . ." - Ann Campanella, author of Motherhood: Lost and Found Come fly with me, Sinatra invited. I invite readers to soar with Terri Kirby Erickson through her remarkable book, Becoming the Blue Heron. Erickson's poems take us to the mysteries of the natural world and the world of family and friends with magical sureness. The language is almost biblical in its intensity and rhythms. Whether dancing to zydeco on "floorboards glowing like embers" or playing the slots in a casino where "loss howls from the hills," we are swept along by Erickson's masterful use of movement and mood. She is just as adept with simile and metaphor in her portraits of wildlife, and the wild side of the people in this collection. Her great grandmother who was dragged by a cow, "mouth open as an unlatched gate," is rendered with great humor and tenderness. As are close family, especially her brother, lost too soon. Love graces these family poems with a beautiful and deep understanding of human frailty. She inhabits the creatures she writes about, the horses "so perfect clouds formed in their shape," barn owls "the final Valentine for rodents," vultures with "heads like chain mail hoods," and the heron she ultimately becomes, lifting this reader with the author on those "great blue wings." - Diana Pinckney, author of The Beast and The Innocent "Terri has the rare gift of seeing with her heart and speaking with her soul. Her poems give voice to those nebulous feelings that for most of us, words all-too-often can't describe. She has a sensibility that both warms the inner self and invites deeper thought. Open yourself to the enchantments of this book, and let her take you to places only a master poet can reach." -Arthur Brice, Executive Editor, CNN