The Open Door

<i>The Open Door</i> is a tender yet fierce meditation on the drag and draw of family the bane of urban living and the palliative of nature.<p>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<p>Sandi McRae Huszagh's poetry started her fourth career. As editor professor and entrepreneur she faced decades of tough material challenges. As poet she draws from heart-searing life events-her youngest son's accidental death at 13 multiple cancers and a near-fatal drowning in the brackish waters of South Carolina. She considers close family relationships-her husband of sixty years two entrepreneurial sons their equally entrepreneurial partners and five amazing grandchildren-her most enduring achievement.<p>ADVANCE PRAISE<p>Mystic mourner mother Sandi McRae Huszagh has returned with a second collection of poems that glow like ghosts. These poems stitch together the unseen world with precision and tenderness. <i>The Open Door</i> gives us passage through a singular voice in magnificent orbit.<p>-Sabrina Orah Mark author of <i>The Babies Tsim Tsum</i> and <i>Wild Milk</i><p><br>Sandi McRae Huszagh's poems weep and dance with the holy grit and grace of being human. Take your time with each and every poem; they have been polished just for you.<p>-Lisa Starr Rhode Island Poet Laureate Emerita author of three books including <i>Mad With Yellow</i><p>