A Key to the Grove and Other Poems

By Peter Verbica

Praise for Verbica’s Poetry

“...rendered with beautiful and arresting figurative language."

Ron Hansen, Author

“The language snaps like branches in winter, crackles like firelight, and finally washes down like summer rain.”

Greg Pliska, Composer

“His poems will lift your spirits, encourage you to question and may inspire you to find the divine in the most ordinary.”

The Rev. Steve Privett, S.J., President, University of San Francisco

“What fountains forth here in one of our local poets can only be admired and envied.”

Vito Victor, author of “Desert Song”

“Peter’s poems are “like a small cathedral” as he invites us to meander with him into “that thin and silvery” compassion deep within us.”

Parthenia M. Hicks, Los Gatos Poet Laureate

“Original and inventive.”

Maggie Paul, Author

Book cover art of the "Owl" (c) 2010 Melissa West.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Peter Verbica
• Release date: Dec 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9780991153503

Peter Verbica

Peter Coe Verbica lives in Santa Cruz, California. He received his BA in English from Santa Clara University, a JD from Santa Clara University School of Law, and an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is married and has four daughters.

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