About the Author:
Deborah Dearing Khayat is a poet who shares her deeply felt wonder at the mystic, timeless, and uplifting qualities of love. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she is an honors graduate of The Catholic University of America. Deborah is a wife, mother, and homemaker who enjoys reading, bridge, tennis, and gardening. She resides in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband, Eddie.
About the Book:
Gathered Blooms
2004 Edition;Hardbound with dust jacket; 110 pages; 7.5 x 10 Inches
ISBN: 0-9748730-7-1 $21.95
Gathered Blooms is a book of romantic verse celebrating love with joyous fervency. The language and verse forms evoke an earlier age when romantic love was cherished and esteemed. The poetry within these pages offers a gratifying unity of feeling together with lyric grace and harmony. The poetry is especially affecting if first read in sequence. By beginning with the expository "The Bouquet" and ending with the elegiac "Do Not Weep,"
the collection becomes a poetic chronicle of burgeoning love that increases in intensity, duration, and reflection. Accompanying the verses are highly evocative line drawings which portray the mood, message, or metaphor. These illustrations, combined with luminous, beautifully constructed language, transport the reader to a time and place where those in love unabashedly extolled its presence and exalted its effects.
2004 Edition;Hardbound with dust jacket; 110 pages; 7.5 x 10 Inches
ISBN: 0-9748730-7-1 $21.95
Gathered Blooms is a book of romantic verse celebrating love with joyous fervency. The language and verse forms evoke an earlier age when romantic love was cherished and esteemed. The poetry within these pages offers a gratifying unity of feeling together with lyric grace and harmony. The poetry is especially affecting if first read in sequence. By beginning with the expository "The Bouquet" and ending with the elegiac "Do Not Weep,"
the collection becomes a poetic chronicle of burgeoning love that increases in intensity, duration, and reflection. Accompanying the verses are highly evocative line drawings which portray the mood, message, or metaphor. These illustrations, combined with luminous, beautifully constructed language, transport the reader to a time and place where those in love unabashedly extolled its presence and exalted its effects.