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Terry Hermsen�s new book ranges from bicycles to baseball, children to elders, Ohio rivers to the Strait of Magellan, offering �words like stepping stones� that lead us into a world gone deep and strange, redolent with memory, association, and feeling. Hermsen�s mindful attention�intense yet delicate�yields crafty, loamy poems in forms from sonnets to shaped poems to riddles. The surprises�of language, imagery, and insight�are many, and the rewards are rich. --Jeff Gundy, author of Abandoned Homeland

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New poems by a veteran poet. Terry Hermsen�s new poems travel�from Ohio prairie to the Strait of Magellan, from galleries of art to the earth�s �museum of eternity down the spine of the Andes,� through loneliness and loss to deeper capacities for love. And everywhere they go, they bring an observant heart, a bold imagination, and the exacting, expansive voice of a poet in his full power. 'If I could I would lie deep inside the morning/as if it were a sea.// Each day the smallest ripple, ' writes Hermsen. Then in poem after exquisite poem, he shows us how this radiant work is done. --Lynn Powell, author of Season of the Second Thought Terry Hermsen's new book ranges from bicycles to baseball, children to elders, Ohio rivers to the Strait of Magellan, offering words like stepping stones that lead us into a world gone deep and strange, redolent with memory, association, and feeling. Hermsen's mindful attention--intense yet delicate--yields crafty, loamy poems in forms from sonnets to shaped poems to riddles. The surprises--of language, imagery, and insight--are many, and the rewards are rich. --Jeff Gundy, author of Abandoned Homeland New poems by a veteran poet. Terry Hermsen's new poems travel--from Ohio prairie to the Strait of Magellan, from galleries of art to the earth's museum of eternity down the spine of the Andes, through loneliness and loss to deeper capacities for love. And everywhere they go, they bring an observant heart, a bold imagination, and the exacting, expansive voice of a poet in his full power. 'If I could I would lie deep inside the morning/as if it were a sea.// Each day the smallest ripple, ' writes Hermsen. Then in poem after exquisite poem, he shows us how this radiant work is done. --Lynn Powell, author of Season of the Second Thought If momentum, as Terry Hermsen writes in his new book, is a matter of degree, then what he measures with an exacting eye is the direction, quality, and meaning of the motion of moving bodies, his own and others, in their daily course around the sun. A House for Last Year's Summer shows his uncanny ability to discern eternal verities in the quotidian, and his mastery of colloquial speech makes each line ring with authenticity. In riddles and prose poems, homages to artists and places here and abroad, elegies and interludes, poet Hermsen finds a local habitation for what propels him through the world: love. This is a lovely book. --Christopher Merrill, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood

If momentum, as Terry Hermsen writes in his new book, is ""a matter of degree,"" then what he measures with an exacting eye is the direction, quality, and meaning of the motion of moving bodies, his own and others, in their daily course around the sun. A House for Last Year's Summer shows his uncanny ability to discern eternal verities in the quotidian, and his mastery of colloquial speech makes each line ring with authenticity. In riddles and prose poems, homages to artists and places here and abroad, elegies and interludes, poet Hermsen finds a local habitation for what propels him through the world: love. This is a lovely book. --Christopher Merrill, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood New poems by a veteran poet. ""Terry Hermsen�s new poems travel�from Ohio prairie to the Strait of Magellan, from galleries of art to the earth�s �museum of eternity down the spine of the Andes,� through loneliness and loss to deeper capacities for love. And everywhere they go, they bring an observant heart, a bold imagination, and the exacting, expansive voice of a poet in his full power. 'If I could I would lie deep inside the morning/as if it were a sea.// Each day the smallest ripple, ' writes Hermsen. Then in poem after exquisite poem, he shows us how this radiant work is done. --Lynn Powell, author of Season of the Second Thought

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Terry Hermsen, Ohio Poet of the Year (2009), has taught in the Writers in the Schools program for the Ohio Arts Council from 1979 � 2003, visiting schools, prisons, senior centers, and national parks. He now teaches Creative Writing and Environmental Literature at Otterbein University and holds an MFA in Poetry from Goddard College and a PhD from Ohio State in Art Education. His books of poetry include 36 Spokes: The Bicycle Poems and Child Aloft in Ohio Theater, and The River�s Daughter. He has recently co-translated and published Chilean poet Christian Formoso�s book El cementerio m�s hermoso de Chile. He is a father of three, a grandfather of two, a bicyclist, gardener and viewer of stars.

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