Overview

These short poems are easy to read and invite contemplation with their often-unique perspective of God as the personal Creator and Savior. Although there is both joy and pain contained and expressed in these poems, there are touches of humor that may make readers smile. The ""Ending"" poems lead to a truly glorious ""End.""

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""Ms. Busching's collection is a luminous affirmation of belief with larger than any denomination confronting the hard facts of the human condition. Each poem is like a butterfly . . . present exquisitely and delicately against all natural odds . . . testifying to something more, something beyond articulation, sustaining hope against despair."" --Brian Anderson, Physicist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ""I found these poems deeply moving, many with a hymn-like quality. They are at once deeply personal and speak to our shared fears and hopes. But most of all, they speak to the Great Love that is there, if we only open ourselves to it."" --Leeann Roc, MD, Pathologist ""What happens when an award-winning mezzo-soprano turns her talents to poetry? You are drawn into words, images, and inspirations that take the reader soaring through flights of song. Marianna Busching offers us 'luminous notes' on the 'life's wonder.' We just hope that it will be a while before she 'kneels and sings / that last, most glorious / Agnus Dei.'"" --Lucy Hogan, Professor Emerita, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C. ""These poems are a gift."" --Rob Boulter, Dean, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Baltimore ""In From Earth's Floor, Marianna, a faith-filled singing poetess, traces the sacred pulse that hums within the ordinary. Each poem is a prayer--chanted with gratitude, wonder, and the courage to look God in the face. From Earth's Floor is not merely a collection--it is a pilgrimage of the soul, where faith wrestles, weeps, and ultimately, sings."" --Debra Asis, Episcopal Priest and Poet

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MARIANNA BUSCHING is a retired opera singer who performed in Carnegie Hall and other venues around the world. She was a vocal instructor for twenty-four years at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of the academic book on singing, Images for Better Singing, as well as three mystery novel under the pen name of Emma Aragon. With this new release, Marianna Busching, whose poetry has been published, and which has won the Guy Owen award presented by the Southern Poetry Review, brings her first collection of poetry in chapbook form.

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