Poetry, writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray.
She lives and teaches in Santa Cruz, California..
Ellen Bass is co-author of the million-selling book Courage to Heal.
Only these excruciatingly insignificant creatures we love.
There never was anything else.
A cheap silver chain shimmers across his throat rising and falling with his pulse. . .
They Can\'t Take That Away from Me . . .
We lie together on the lumpy couch and I warble out the old show tunes, Night and Day .
When I get home, my son has a headache, and though he\'s almost grown, asks me to sing him a song. . . .
She also faces many of the crucial moral dilemmas of our time--genetic engineering, environmental issues, continuous war, heterosexism--and grounds her vision in the small, private workings of the heart.
Bass brings attention to life\'s endearing absurdities, and many of the poems flash with a keen sense of humor.
The Human Line, Bass\' seventh book of poems, startles with its precise detail, intimate images, and wild metaphors.
It\'s the way I embody my love for the world.
Poetry, writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray
