Biting The Apple drops you into life in the 1940’s. Spanning decades, the author shows a self becoming a self. These intimate poems capture the human journey from the loss of innocence into the fullness of life. In this collection, fresh, imaginative and true, Greensfelder writes with humor and remarkable candor.Editorial Review:Get ready! Get ready to experience how poems linking surprise to feeling fire-up your own creative synapses. These poems possess a crisp, bright, wetness – a delicious sense of Eros. Greensfelder’s poems are exactly what one wants and expects when biting the apple, when living this whole life. --John Fox, author of Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making and Founder of The Institute for Poetic MedicineThis delightful collection spans nearly 70 years of the poet’s experience tasting apples in the Garden of her life, beginning with her earliest memories as a child of three and ending with observations about grandchildren. As good poetry should, these poems evoke insights about ourselves and the light and dark world of which we are all apple-biting by-products. --Margaret Van Every, author of A Pillow Stuffed with Diamonds (2011) and Saying Her Name (2012)In this coming of age and beyond book, Greensfelder writes with humor and charm. Federico Garcia Lorca said the essence of poetry was in "el vulnerado." Biting the Apple reveals this vulnerability from the child who faces life's pain to the adult who finds survival skills. Biting the Apple is a delightful and moving verse memoir. --Glenna Luschei, Past Poet Laureate San Luis Obispo, Editor & Publisher of Solo Press
