Face to Face - Softcover

Benjamin, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979457947 ISBN 13: 9780979457944

Publisher: Nepperhan Press, LLC, 2009

Synopsis

Not poetry for poetry's sake, these poems are truly an uninhibited reflection of the miracles and wonders of nature and the struggles and victories of the human spirit. Written in the simplest of words, they can reach every soul searching for the truth of God's love and steadfastness through life's trials.

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Benjamin s first volume of poetry, Through My Window, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. Her poetry has also been published in The Connecticut River Review and The Fairfield County Catholic and has been featured in Celebrate Your Divinity and Le Preuve Scientifique de l Existence de Dieu, by Orest Bedrij. Ms.Benjamin also paints and several of her water colors and poems are the expression of a single inspiration, among them The Encounter, inspired by the same vision as the cover painting.An international speaker, consultant, executive mentor, and retreat leader, Ms. Benjamin is also the founding director of Intuitive Discovery,Inc. In that capacity, she has designed and facilitated programs in leadership, human resources, innovation, and creative and spiritual development for Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations and universities.Ms. Benjamin s appearances include The Writer s Workshop in Geneva, Switzerland, and The Cenacle Center in Houston, Texas. In 1998, Ms. Benjamin co-directed The Third Millennium Leadership Assembly in Campobello, New Brunswick, Canada.Her other publications include: Leadership in the Interactive Age: A Skills Development Workbook and the accompanying CDs, The Leadership Lecture Series; The Case Study: Storytelling in the Industrial Age and Beyond; and A Modern Prayer Guide to St. Teresa of Avila s Interior Castle. Ms. Benjamin loves to cook and she has also co-authored two cookbooks, The Lenten Kitchen and The Advent Kitchen, published by The Paulist Press.

From the Inside Flap

If you want to have a moving mystical experience, pray these poems. If you want to have just plain fun, browse through these remarkable poems on a bright sunny day, and then meditate on them on a melancholy rainy day. You will never tire of reading this book. Joseph F. Girzone, author of Joshua Reading Barbara Benjamin's poetry is like reading Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass or the mathematical source code of the Absolute Infinity. Only silence can describe its magnificence. Orest Bedrij, author of Celebrate Your Divinity In Face to Face Barbara Benjamin sings an involvement with life and inner spirit that is breathtaking. Deceptively clear and straightforward, she touches the deepest in us and around us in every poem. James M. McMahon, PhD, author of Radical Self-Acceptance: The spiritual birth of the human person

Edition details

• Publisher: Nepperhan Press, LLC
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979457947
• ISBN 13: 9780979457944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150