The Weight of Love - by Pat Schneider (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Pat Schneider's The Weight of Love is poetry that deals, in large part, with aging and with trying to come to terms with being human and being spiritual.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Pat Schneider was born in the Ozark mountains of Missouri where she became intimate with fossils, creek bed grasshoppers and box turtles. After a search for work took her single mother to St. Louis, from age ten Pat lived in tenements and in an orphanage until she was given a scholarship to college. Those early experiences deeply influenced her writing, and fueled her passion for those who have been denied voice through poverty and other <br /> misfortunes.</p><p>Pat's books, poetry, plays, and libretti have been praised by the most prestigious publications and authors in America: <em>The New York Times</em>, the <em>Library Journal</em>, the <em>Atlanta Journal, Small Press Magazine, St. Louis Dispatch, </em>the<em> North Dakota Review, Oprah Magazine, Vanity Fair</em>, the <em>North Dakota Quarterly, </em> the <em>Kentucky Monthly, </em> the <em>Bellingham Review</em>, the <em>Louisville Times, </em> and many others.</p><p>Peter Elbow said that Pat Schneider is "the wisest teacher of writing I know." Julia Cameron, author of <em>The Right to Write</em> and <em>The Artist's Way, </em> noted that Pat is "a fuse lighter. Her work is gentle, playful, brilliant, and revolutionary" and Janet Burroway, author of <em>Writing Fiction, </em> notes that Pat's work is "heartening and practical, a rich variety . . . that celebrates both difference and difficulty as the gifts they are. </p>
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