Beginnings and Beyond - Softcover

Carol Lynn Pearson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599558602 ISBN 13: 9781599558608

Publisher: Cedar Fort, Inc., 2011

Synopsis

"Poetry won't sell," said local publishers when Carol Lynn Pearson and her husband, Gerald, presented them with the manuscript for Beginnings in 1968. So they published two thousand copies themselves, believing that they had their lifetime supply of wedding presents.

Nearly four decades and 300,000 volumes later, Carol Lynn's poetry has been internationally acclaimed, reprinted by Ann Landers's newspaper column, A Second Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul, and college literary textbooks such as Houghton Mifflin's Structure and Meaning: An Introduction to Literature.

But more important, her poems have carved themselves into the hearts of her loyal following, giving inspiration, smiles, tears, and always the exact thought needed for a particular talk, lesson, letter, or personal need. Familiar life situations become vividly meaningful through Carol Lynn's magic of insight and imagery—

· One splendid, never-worn red dress in the otherwise drab wardrobe symbolizes a mother's deathbed regret at her self-abnegating life and her offspring's resultant selfishness .

· An elderly farmer smugly contemplates the inherited land he has dramatically improved and then goes proudly home to the wife whose potential he has consistently stifled.

· A woman experiencing her second wedding, now "an orchard in September, not a branch in May," says "I do" and knows "I can."

Beginnings & Beyond offers Carol Lynn's most popular poems to still another generation to enjoy and treasure.

About this title

About the Author:

Carol Lynn Pearson has been a professional writer, speaker, and performer for many years.

In addition to her volumes of poetry, she is well known for such books as her autobiography, Goodbye, I Love You, which tells the story of her marriage to a homosexual man, their divorce and ongoing friendship, and her caring for him as he died of AIDS; Consider the Butterfly, which tells forty-four of her personal stories of meaningful coincidence and was a finalist in the inspiration/spiritual category of the 2002 Independent Publishers Book Awards; and a series of inspirational books that began with The Lesson.

Her five Christmas books include The Christmas Moment, published in 2005 by Cedar Fort, and the classic, A Stranger for Christmas.

Carol Lynn has been a guest on such programs as The Oprah Winfrey Show and Good Morning, America and has been featured in People magazine. She has a master of arts in theater, is the mother of four grown children, and lives in Walnut Creek, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cedar Fort, Inc.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1599558602
• ISBN 13: 9781599558608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226