PHYLLIS STOWELL at Books Inc. Berkeley

Join poet Phyllis Stowell at Books Inc. Berkeley for a reading from her collection Still Waters!

The phrase “Still Waters” recalls the Psalmist’s promise of comfort, but it also suggests the final stilling of all our talkative consciousnesses. In this context, the eternal question “Who Am I” acquires a new, desperate urgency. And Phyllis Stowell’s poetry takes on a new eloquence and depth as she ponders these imponderables.
—Alan Williamson

When Phyllis Stowell writes “this identity will cease to be,” she is speaking to what she calls “the fragility of things.” What’s exciting is that this vulnerable space of loss and aging is the opening for her to an imagination of possibilities that are not time-bound. These give her poet-self the chance to sit at the edge of a heart that is capable of knowing how to care about itself.
—John Beebe, Jungian analyst, author of Integrity in Depth

Host or Publisher Books Inc.