Words Make a Way Through Fire by Cyra Dumitru - 9781647429522

Name: Words Make a Way Through Fire by Cyra Dumitru - 9781647429522
Brand: She Writes Press

She Writes Press

Words Make a Way Through FireHealing After My Brother's Suicide\nAuthor(s): Cyra Dumitru\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Simon And Schuster Group USA, United States\nImprint: She Writes Press\nISBN-13: 9781647429522, 978-1647429522\nSynopsis\nWords Make a Way through Fire is an intimate, courageous memoir of a woman shattered by witnessing her eldest brother's horrific suicide when she was a teenager. The book traces her creative journey of recovery and healing with poetry as a constant companion. The primary means of Cyra Dumitru's healing process, from age sixteen through adulthood, is writing poetry and journaling. During this decades-long journey, Cyra experiences a transcendent, loving presence called Voice who guides her and helps her imagine wholeness. She finds community with others through the sharing of poems. She studies poetry as craft and as medicine - becoming a published poet with multiple books, an award-winning college instructor of poetry writing, and a certified pra.