PRAISE FOR WHOLENESS CALLS LONGING ANSWERS

     “Each of these poems is a universe, exquisite and alive. And each offering of prose pierced me, shook me awake in a new way, made me sit up and listen as only an original language can.  This opus is a gift. I feel quieter and more true than I have in weeks. Your breathing has taken me into my own, and beyond it to the potent nothing of no breath."

Kim Rosen, poet, workshop leader and author

     “I am profoundly moved by these fearless, deeply meditative poems, written in the spirit of healing. Michael reclaims his connection to his childhood, shares his love and understanding of the natural world and confronts the complexity of our most human joys and yearnings in elegies for what is lost and celebrations of what is found. In his poetic writings, he explores his inner landscape and what he learns from listening to his breath. His spiritual acceptance of life's power and beauty take me to a deeper place inside myself. In ‘Drawn to Daven,’ he says, ‘the room hummed with devotion.’ His writing hums with devotion.”

Sondra Gash, poet, teacher and author of Silk Elegy

    "Wholeness Calls/ Longing Answers is one of the most special gifts I have ever received.  I have enormous respect and appreciation for Michael's wise, poignant, sensitive, and beautifully etched writings. I sincerely regret I never had the chance to meet him."

Robert H. Deluty, Ph.D., Associate Dean of the Graduate School,
University of Maryland. Author of nineteen books of poetry; including Walking Through Many Lives, Gateway Press, 2009