Poet Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris will touch your heart with tenderness at The Arrival of a baby girl “into the searing light painful brilliance of her existence into life.” Her Feelings in Color will move you through the whole spectrum of emotional light waves as she sinks into “His sea blue eyes lined with tiny rivers of broken vessels.” Each one of Gypsie-Ami’s poems vibrates with her own “personal catharsis” whose echoes will resonate with your own… even long after you finish reading her chapbook.
– Christine Moughamian, M.A.
Award-Winning Memoirist, Organizer of The Wilmington Write To Publish Group Meetup
As she warns us in her introduction, “This is not a feel-good book.” Ms. Offenbacher-Ferris’ Reflections of a Woman’s Life reveals a bleeding, broken heart, merciful only in its brevity.
The chapbook starts, appropriately enough, with The Arrival of a new life, still swaddled with her “mother’s richest loam” where joy is tempered with the stark reality of life.
And so it is throughout this powerful collection, closing with Reflections on life and its never-ending cycle, each happiness sliced by pain, love tainted with betrayal, life with all its color ending in death.
Here you’ll find raw emotions on full display, no filter, just heartfelt poems with earthy metaphors, throbbing on the page.
-Bartholomew Barker, Author of Milkshakes and Chilidogs: And Other Food Poems
From the moment Gypsie-Ami invites you into
her written world she warns you, the reader, to be prepared for an unexpected emotional
journey. And she definitely delivers. She dives deeply into the parts of ourselves we prefer to hide away in the dark. She pulls them out into the light helping us find humor in them, how to survive them, and how to move on. Her powerful poems contain surprising insight, joy, playfulness, and at times you cry along with her.
Wordplay and lyrical rhythms provide the perfect backdrop to transport and carry the reader on a whimsical, deeply soul rooted caravan ride where writer and reader share the emotional landscape.
-Koleen K. Telecky, M.S., CCC-SLP
Gypsie Ami Offenbacher-Ferris presents poems that are intelligent in conception and radiantly illuminating in reading. The compilation has thematic depth, presenting slices of real life. The collection is a valuable companion for poetry lovers
-Rose-Mary Harrington, A.R. Ammons Poetry Award 2025, MA University of Arizona
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