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.

Author City: Barkeyville, PA USA

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.