John Fox, C.P.T., author of Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-making
Searing, startling, powerful, beautiful! I am stunned by this book!

Arleen McCarty Hynes, O.S.B., R.P.T, co-author of Biblio/Poetry Therapy: The Interactive Process
A great contribution to the field of poetry therapy, especially to the treatment of sexual abuse and addiction.

Dr. Mary Hynes-Berry, Erikson Institute, Chicago, Illinois; co-author of Biblio/Poetry Therapy: The Interactive Process
Compelling; it documents recognitions that have come in the course of processing her own familys painful experiences.

Book Description
Lucid, elegant poetry detailing the author's son's struggles to overcome addiction. This book is a must for anyone who has an addiction, or knows someone who does. It is complete with an addendum for use as a poetry therapy text.

About the Author
Born on a southern Minnesota farm, Mary Willette Hughes was the only daughter in a family of six children. She attended a one-room schoolhouse for eight years, the local high school in Delavan and then earned a Bachelors Degree in Music at the College of St. Benedict. For the next sixteen years, she was a full-time wife and mother, parenting seven children with her husband, Mark. She spent several years as a grade school music teacher, overlapping with years as a guitarist and music minister at local parishes (which she continues to do), plus eighteen years as an instructor for the St. Cloud Diocesan Family Life Bureau. The poetry muse whispered to her in 1989, and she began writing poetry after attending a course in biblio/poetry therapy, taught by Arleen McCarty Hynes, O.S.B., R.P.T., co-author of Biblio/ Poetry Therapy, the Interactive Process: A Handbook. Currently, Mary works part time with five separate groups as a co-facilitator of poetry therapy in the St. Cloud Hospital's Recovery Plus p