The Longest Breath

Book Description
Greg Field's poems dramatize a great love and the loss of that love, then a new beginning in which the poet's strength and faith are tested. Functioning as vehicles of healing, the poems--like breath itself--move between the interior experience of human consciousness and the exterior world in which human beings are placed. The images are as tough-minded as they are elegant. The Longest Breath was the winner of The Mid-America Press, Inc., Writing Award 1997 and a 1999 Thorpe Menn Poetry Award Finalist.

About the Author
Greg Field is an artist, writer, and educator who lives in Independence, Missouri. He has worked as a Poet-in-the-Schools for the Missouri Arts Council and taught both elementary and secondary art in Missouri public schools. His paintings are in private collections all over the country.

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