Thread Count belongs in everyone's 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., What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About HypertensionLike 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 JournalTerri 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, Learn to Be Happy
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. Please visit her website at http://terrikirbyerickson.wordpress.com
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 this collection 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.
