Between The Light and Shadows

About the Book

This lyrical volume of poetry is well crafted and rooted in specific natural detail. The images of the poems draw on all seasons and a breadth of family life and experience. The reader will recognize the emotions as personal with a universal truth, but will also experience each poem as new and poignant. The author's childhood in the Missouri Ozarks is vividly portrayed in the poems. The poet's voice is strong, sure and original, unflinching in facing the harshest realities of life and death, and coming to transcendence, transforming pain into artistic achievement.

About the Author

Anita Barickman Roberts has been writing poetry since she was eight. Her first poem was published when she was eleven. A retired English teacher of the Newton Public Schools, mother of grown sons, she now devotes her life to poetry, immersion in nature, gardening, community, and family.