To Hide in the Light
Akhter Ahsen, Ph.D., author of Manhunt in the Desert, and publisher, Brandon House Publishing, New York, New York, writes to Roberts about her poetry:
"Modern soul is alien to poetry, and furrows which poetry tends to carve in the mind are somehow rejected by the soul. You carve deep, whirling green furrows in the mind which are difficult to reject."
(On Back Ccover)
When I first came across Bonnie Roberts's work . . . I was absolutely, immediately exhilarated with the same kind of exhilaration as when I first opened Neruda, a sense of a whole landscape singing through a person. ”
—Paula Meehan, Irish poet, her comment on the back of Roberts's first collection, To Hide in the Light.
About Bonnie
Both my parents were teachers, who met at the University of AL. My mother eventually taught 2nd-grade reading; my father taught math, history, and political science. To improve his income, he later became a seller of insurance, not something he liked, but...
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Causes Bonnie Roberts Supports
The Southern Poverty Law Center, The National Resource Defense Council, The ACLU, Doctors without Borders, Save Darfur
Bonnie’s Favorite Books
To Kill a Mockingbird; The Poisonwood Bible; The Star Thrower; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Holy the Firm; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Leaves of Grass; Les...