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Format: Paperback (6 x 9) ISBN: 1420892983 Price: $16.49
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| Page by Bronc Designs 2006 |
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| About the Book: "Terri Kirby Erickson's first book is rich in metaphors and diverse in subject matter. Her love of language and poetry is evident in each of her spirited and original poems. The poem 'Luncheon in Paris' was my favorite and well worth the price of the book. The book is beautiful both inside and out. The cover art is spectacular." Doris Stengel, President of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies "Thread Count belongs in everyones library. Many of the poems will forever be committed to memory and quoted through time, as their meanings are eternal and beautiful." --Mark Houston, M.D., author of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Hypertension "Terri Erickson has made a marvel in these poems, a gift of connection that is rich, deep and wide. She expresses the essence of things both ordinary and remarkable in ways that invite the rest of us to experience our own lives more fully and deeply. In a world all too shallow and in love with speed, these poems demonstrate the great value of depth, caring and the moment taken to pause and consider." --Nelson Adams, author of Learn to Be Happy "Like a time capsule, her (Erickson's) poetry draws in a reader as vividly as a snapshot or a painting, but with descriptions of emotions and environments that are lost in translation with film or paint." --Denise Kasper, Winston-Salem Journal |
| About the author : Terri Kirby Erickson’s work has been published by or is forthcoming in Pisgah Review, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Blue Fifth Review, Dead Mule, Smoking Poet, Broad River Review, Christian Science Monitor, Paris Voice, Old Mountain Press, Bay Leaves, Thieves Jargon, Forsyth Woman, WomenBloom, Parent:Wise Austin, Silver Boomer Books, the Hickory Women’s Resource Center anthology: Voices and Vision: A Collection of Writings By and About Empowered Women, and others. Her poem, “Bobbing for Apples,” won second place in the 2008 Ellen Johnston-Hale Contest for Light Verse, sponsored by the Poetry Council of North Carolina. The Northwest Cultural Council also selected her work in 2006 and 2007, for an international juried poetry exhibit. She will be teaching a poetry editing class at Salem College in April, and conducting a series of teen poetry seminars, sponsored by the Forsyth County Public Library, during the summer of 2009. Her next collection of poetry will be published by Press 53, tentatively scheduled for release in the fall of 2009. |
| My mother hung wet sheets to dry from a rope that stretched between two poles in our back yard, her motions smooth and rhythmic as a synchronized swimmer. She stooped and straightened again and again, her hands moving across the line faster than squirrels on telephone wire. From my perch on the swing, I watched her work, pumping my legs until I touched puffy white clouds with the toes of my shoes, the squeak of the metal chain steady as a metronome. My body felt light as dandelion seeds, floating. Higher and higher I swung, until it seemed I was a kite soaring on the end of a string. I slung my head back and let my hair trail in the dirt, closing my eyes so the sensation in my belly was like the swift descent of an elevator in a tall building. The sun felt like warm maple syrup dripping on my face, and the air smelled of honeysuckle and bacon grease in glass jars sitting on the window sill. I opened my eyes as my mother lifted the last sheet from the pile, with light illuminating the threads like the hours in a childs summer day, too many to count. |
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