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Know the Way

by:
Elizabeth Ayres (Author)

ISBN: 0-7414-2825-3 ©2005
Price: $12.95
Book Size: 5.5'' x 8.5'' , 178 pages
Category/Subject: POETRY / General

Know the Way is a road map to those ‘places of the heart’ we all need to find. Highly recommended.” —Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Abstract:
Know the Way is an indispensable companion for anyone who feels lost on the journey called life. Whether you love poetry or hate it, you’ll agree that this book is the next best thing to a live performance by the internationally acclaimed writer and teacher, Elizabeth Ayres, who explains, “Poetry is my ‘pull yourself up by your own bootstraps’ way to live. That’s why I’ve given you a prose explanation for each poem. By sharing with you the ‘slice of life’ from which the work evolved, I hope to provide you with a clear pathway into your own deepest knowing.”

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Customer Reviews

  At Last , 01/25/2006
Reviewer: Jane Sypher
As a former high school English teacher and a current Community College adjunct instructor, I often tell my students that "until the poet tells us what he/she had in mind, all interpretations are valid". Now there is a book of poetry where indeed the poet is telling us what she had in mind. In addition, the range of poetic experiences takes the reader on a marvelous journey with Ms Ayres. This book is a gem.

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  Forewords - Afterwords , 02/22/2006
Reviewer: Karen Karper Fredette
Elizabeth Ayres' poetry illustrates how large our inner world is. No matter how mundane the impetus for a certain poem, the images fly around the cosmos, deep as the sea; high as the sky, yet firmly rooted in daily life, as the very helpful prose introductions illustrate. For those of us who wish to really understand (not guess at)the intended meaning of a poet's words, such introductions can be immensely helpful. Yet they do not "reduce" the poem to only one meaning. Rather, the tiny prefaces enable and encourage us to find our own truth in the many-layered words of Ayres' dancing lines. Wouldn't it be neat if readers chose one of Ayres' poems and wrote their own "Afterword" to counterpoint her Foreword?

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