My Name Is Another Word

<p>In <em>My Name Is Another Word</em> poet and songwriter Beth Wood chronicles the building of a life story on her own terms. Who are we without the stories we are told about ourselves many of them untrue? Wood builds a house of meaning made from inner knowing observation deep listening honoring of grief and love in equal measure. At times light-hearted at times resolute and wise these poems sing an invitation to dream and to build. <em>Poem as gate poem as offering poem as life raft</em>... <em>poem for you</em>.</p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>In this her fourth poetry title Wood reveals the disruptive good that lies under the surface of our lives if we'll but look. Her keen observation of place people and emotion shows us how. The author's curiosity about the easy and hard as though the same thing lights each of her poems from the inside out. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>-Ellen Waterston author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>Hotel Domilocos Poems</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>Walking the High Desert</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)> 2024 Stuart H. Holbrook and Soapstone Bread and Roses awards winner Oregon Poet Laureate</span></p>