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Through My Window: Poetry of a Psychotherapist

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Linda Leedy Schneider looks at life, love, and the world that surrounds her in Through My Window: Poetry of a Psychotherapist. The well-rounded collection begins with "Five Minutes Between Therapy Clients," (link to poem in A Reader Writes) in which she explores beauty and imperfection. She carries that theme through the chapbook, looking at nature, war, an Albanian orphanage, moments to reclaim, moments that can never be reclaimed and the intersections of nature's and man's imperfections.

Her poetry often sings. The metaphors and discoveries are strong. Sometimes her realizations jar the reader into new awareness and understanding. This is not surprising when you consider that a T. S. Elliot epigram "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go," precedes the collection.

Author Linda Leedy Schneider is an award winning internationally published poet and writer, a poetry and writing mentor, a clinical social worker in private practice and an instructor at Kendall College of Art and Design. She leads writing groups for people living with cancer and is a Workshop Leader at the International Women's Writing Guild Conference at Skidmore College. Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines. Visit Amazon to purchase the book.

This review first appeared on Writer Advice, www.writeradvice.com.