Under the Terebinth: Poems

by Anna A. Friedrich, Malcolm Guite (contributor)

Under the Terebinth invites readers into a shaded place, where questions are welcomed, where beauty is real and made manifest in caterpillars and whale song, and and where Sorrow, personified looms large.

Genres: Poetry

82 pages, Paperback

Published September 13, 2024

Reviews

[Anna Sundblad]

A stunning way to start a year of reading.

Anna Friedrich's words slip past your guarded thoughts and wind their poignant way straight to your heart. These are not just tapestries woven of pretty sounds, but short glimpses into a reality as hard as we know it to be - and also full of hope.

And that's the true wonder of this little book of poems. In the middle of a scene as full of earth and dust and grit as any, Friedrich points our eyes to a glimmer just below the surface. We come face to face with the sacred in a worn out cocoon on the porch,

In a chintzy Christmas tree lighting up a nursing home,

In the middle of a silverware drawer.

[Meredith Hall]

from Derek for Christmas

[Amanda]

"Mystery befriends the patient" p54

A surprisingly approachable collection. I finished it in an hour or two, and it definitely deserves a second and third reading in the future.

[Shawn White]

It's me (I'm sure of it), not you.

[Randall]

Under the Terebinth is a lovely collection of poems reflecting on life in this world that is -- with all its questions and love and hope.