In the Palms of Angels - Softcover

Erickson, Terri Kirby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935708279 ISBN 13: 9781935708278

Publisher: Press 53, 2011

Synopsis

"There is no store-bought redemption pasted to the ends of these poems, but neither will you find hopelessness, self-pity, a turning away from the world. What you will find at the core of all these poems is the timeless North Carolinian's beneficent but ungilded witnessing." - From the Introduction by Ron Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of Mark Twain, A Life and co-author of True Compass and Flags of Our Fathers

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"More than a poet, Terri Kirby Erickson is the best friend you always wanted, the kind you can count on both to tell you the truth, and to help you bear it.  Her poems shimmer like moonlight on water in the farthest corners of your soul."  Sharon Randall, syndicated columnist and author of Birdbaths and Paper Cranes

About the Author:

Award-winning poet Terri Kirby Erickson's poetry collection, Telling Tales of Dusk (Press 53), was #23 on the Poetry Foundation's Contemporary Best Sellers list for the week of February 7, 2010, and went up to #8 in Amazon sales of poetry books in the country in the same week. She is the author of three full-length collections, Thread Count (2006), Telling Tales of Dusk (2009), and In the Palms of Angels (Press 53, April, 2011).

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals, anthologies and other publications, including Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, The Christian Science Monitor, Eclectica, JAMA, the North Carolina Literary Review, Verse Daily and many others. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and for a Best of the Net Award. Her awards include first place honors from the North Carolina Poetry Society, the Carteret Writers and the Writers' Ink Guild, and she was one of eleven international winners of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize in 2011. 

The cover of In the Palms of Angels and her other books, as well, were painted by her uncle, internationally acclaimed artist Stephen White, whose work has been exhibited at MoMA. The Introduction to In the Palms of Angels was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, Ron Powers, author of Mark Twain, A Life, and co-author of Flags of Our Fathers. This book was also glowingly endorsed (see back cover) by beloved columnist Sharon Randall, whose warm and wonderful columns can be found in over 400 newspapers around the country, and former North Carolina Poet Laureate, Kathryn Stripling Byer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Press 53
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1935708279
• ISBN 13: 9781935708278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132