When the Universe Brings Us Back

This book is a treasury of wisdom which deals with life's great questions, ambiguities and ironies. There are many poems of self-discovery from an eighty-year-old vantage point. It is heavy in poems which discuss relationship experiences and reinforce our universal links to the natural world we inhabit. Poems embrace several forms: narrative, free verse, lyric, villanelles, and sonnets. While most are short and pithy, there is always something to ponder. There is hope for humanity in these poems.

Lorraine Jeffery has a bachelor's degree in English, a MLIS in library science, and has managed public libraries in Texas, Ohio and Utah. She has won poetry prizes in state and national contests and published over one hundred poems in journals and anthologies, including Clockhouse, Kindred, Calliope, Ibbetson Street, Rockhurst Review, Orchard Street Press, Bacopa Press, League of Utah Writers, Two Hawks, Riverfeet, Regal Publishing and Naugatuck River Review. Her short stories and essays have appeared in many publications, including Persimmon Tree, Focus on the Family, Mature Years, Elsewhere and League of Utah Writers Anthologies. She lives in Utah with her husband.