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Please Treasure Yourself is a collection of ninety cinquains inspired by a ninety-day period of sitting meditation led by the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care during the summer of 2023. The poems are five-line distillations of daily reading material-wisdom teachings by Japanese Zen priest K¿sh¿ Uchiyama-that accompanied this three-month period of committed meditation practice. Readers who wish to begin or deepen their practices of meditation and mindful living, along with those who love poetry, will appreciate and enjoy these carefully crafted poems.

Produktbeschreibung
Please Treasure Yourself is a collection of ninety cinquains inspired by a ninety-day period of sitting meditation led by the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care during the summer of 2023. The poems are five-line distillations of daily reading material-wisdom teachings by Japanese Zen priest K¿sh¿ Uchiyama-that accompanied this three-month period of committed meditation practice. Readers who wish to begin or deepen their practices of meditation and mindful living, along with those who love poetry, will appreciate and enjoy these carefully crafted poems.
Autorenporträt
Susan F. Glassmeyer is Codirector of the Holistic Health Center of Cincinnati where she works as a somatic therapist and Feldenkrais® Practitioner, helping people heal from trauma in order to experience the poetry of presence in their bodies. Susan was named Ohio Poet of the Year for her 2018 collection Invisible Fish (Dos Madres Press). She is also the author of Four Blue Eggs: American Cinquains (Little Pocket Poetry Press), Body Matters (Pudding House Press), and Cook's Luck (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have appeared in Rattle, JAMA, Naugatuck River Review, Dunes Review, Pulse, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Grateful Living (grateful.org), and other print and online journals. She is a longtime member of the Greater Cincinnati Writers League and Ohio Poetry Association, and is the creator of April Gifts, a ten-year poetry project honoring National Poetry Month. Susan traces the roots of her interest in both meditation and poetry to early childhood when her railroad worker grandfather taught her to pay close attention to the language of train whistles. To learn more, visit www.susanglassmeyer.com.