Book of the Unbroken Days [Paperback]

Philip Terman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1595390073 | ISBN-13: 978-1595390073 | Publication Date: July 2004

Poetry. "Philip Terman is a poet of great compassion, one whose poems combine humor, tenderness, melancholy, passion and intelligence in a strong and lovely mix. His new book is full of the sense of what it means to be fully human and fully alive. Terman pays attention to things large and small, to family and memory, gardens and history, children and the elderly. The question he seems to be asking, in poem after poem, is, How can one best live this life? These are unabashed poems of love for a complicated universe"--Liz Rosenberg.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Philip Terman is a poet of great compassion,...these are unabashed poems of love for a complicated universe." -- Liz Rosenberg

"The speaker...absorbs particulars of the human struggle...and records it with the empathy of a saint or a mystic." -- Leslie Ullman, Poetry, on The House of Sages

"There's sensual grace informing these poems--sensuous, loving, celebration of the ordinary human and natural miracles of existence." -- Eamon Grennan

About the Author

Philip Terman is the author of What Survives (Sow's Ear Press, 1993) and BOOK OF THE UNBROKEN DAYS (Mammoth books, 2004). His poems and essays have appeared in several publications, including Poetry, the Kenyon Review, the Gettysburg Review, Tikkun, the Georgia Review, and the Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. He has received the Anna Davidson Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience. he's a professor of English and creative writing at Clarion University and a director of the Chautauqua Writer's Festival at the Chautauqua Institute. He lives in Barkeyville, PA, with his wife Christine Hood and daughters Miriam and Bella.

Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: MAMMOTH books (July 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1595390073
• ISBN-13: 978-1595390073
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,856,555 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Philip Terman is the author of five books of poetry: What Survives (Sow's Ear Press, 1993), The House of Sages (Mammoth Press, 1998),Greatest Hits (Pudding House Press, 2005) Book of the Unbroken Days (Mammoth Press, 2005), and Rabbis of the Air (Autumn House Press, 2007). His poems have appeared in several publications, including Poetry Magazine, The Georgia Review, The Forward, and The Sun Magazine. He has received the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience. He co-directs the Chautauqua Writers' Festival, is a Contributing Editor for the journal Chautauqua, and is a Professor of English at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.