On A FAIR WIND

On a Fair Wind is Ruth Guillard's second book of her poetry, the first being From Burnham Cove published in 2012. The author writes of the sea, the fields and forests, from a real need of these natural surroundings. In balance, her poems about our human condition are directly engaging, whether from the heart, or wry and philosophical. There are also poems describing deep and subtle inner experiences. It is worth making room for some quiet moments to dive into these collections.

Ruth Fredericks Guillard was born in 1931 in Philadelphia, PA. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1952 with a BFA degree as a music major. She had an active music career as a singer and recorder teacher (primarily Renaissance and Baroque) in the New England area. In 1974 she was made a certified teacher of the Transcendental Meditation technique and has taught TM since then in Massachusetts, Maine, Russia and Armenia. Her poetry writing came later in life, with the publishing of her first book, "From Burnham Cove" in 2012 and, in 2013, inclusion of her works in "TAKE HEART", an anthology of Maine poets compiled by Maine's poet laureate Wesley McNair. She lives with her husband in an 1820 farmhouse in Boothbay, Maine. The family consists of three sons, five grandchildren and a succession of shelter dogs.