Poetry. "In these luminously beautiful and deceptively simple lyrics, Jerry Mirskin evokes the things of this world-birth, death, childhood, father and son relationships, travel, work, the natural world, religion, mythology-affirming the necessity of both love and loss, the holding on and the letting go. With effortlessness and grace, in poem after memorable poem, he conveys his faith and affirmation in the face of 'the holiness and the terror' that make up any individual life. These are poems of succor and consolation, poems of witness and celebration, poems of patient affection and concern. They are necessary poems"-Ron Wallace.

Author City: ITHACA, NY USA

Jerry Mirskin was born in the Bronx, NY, and has lived in California, Wisconsin and Maine. He has worked as a herdsman on a dairy farm, as a carpenter, and as a New York State Poet-in-the-Schools. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies (see below), and he has presented his work, and given workshops, at universities, colleges, public libraries, art centers, and on television. He is currently an Associate Professor at Ithaca College and regularly teaches select courses at Cornell University. His first collection, PICTURE A GATE HANGING OPEN AND LET THAT GATE BE THE SUN, was published in 2002, by Mammoth Books after being chosen for first prize in the Mammoth Books Prize for Poetry. A new collection, entitled IN FLAGRANTE DELICTO, was released in October 2008.