“The Gift of Glossophobia”
by Mary Louise Kiernan
* Member of CALLING ALL POETS (CAPS) *
* Member of The Woodstock Poetry Society *
“Mary Louise Kiernan comes into full voice in her splendid debut collection, The Gift of Glossophobia. Not everyone finds the fear of speaking in public a gift…. It takes a lifetime to accrue—and reveal—one’s best creative acts, and Kiernan proves it in The Gift of Glossophobia.“
—Molly Peacock, author of The Analyst: Poems and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems
“From the first poem, when the narrator tells of being stuck in the mud, she’s learning how to get unstuck from what holds her back…. Balanced between the sensual and the spiritual, this honest book welcomes ‘Turning forty on a full moon—let the lunacy begin.’“
—Mary Makofske, author of World Enough, and Time and Traction, winner of the Ashland Poetry Press Snyder Award