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Seeds of the Pomegranate Paperback – April 29, 2000

4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

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POET magazine says of Ms. Ross' poetry that she is able to "extend the everyday moment into deep mythology, using the commonplace as an avenue into the emotions." In SEEDS OF THE POMEGRANATE, Sherry uses the ancient Greek myth of Persephone as a metaphor for her own life. In the myth of Persephone, which is retold in the book's forward, Persephone is abducted by Hades, the god of the underworld. Her mother, the earth goddess Demeter, is both grief stricken and enraged at her daughter's disappearance. Obsessed with finding her daughter she neglects her duties and the land dries up and becomes cold, the leaves fall from the trees, and death hunts mankind. Eventually, she confronts Hades in his world of the dead and they make a bargain. Hades has come to love Persephone and recognizes her suffering when he sees her joy in being reunited with her mother. Persephone has only eaten six seeds from the pomegranate fruit since her abduction. Demeter and Hades agree that Persephone may spend six months above ground with her mother and six months in the world of the dead with Hades. Persephone accepts the compromise and becomes both the Queen of the Underworld, sharing the throne with her husband, and a symbol of rebirth, fertility and joy, when she returns to the upper world and her mother. In SEEDS OF THE POMEGRANATE, each poems is treated as a seed of this fruit on which the bargain was made. The poems moves from summer to fall and contain the nostalgic sense of loss we all sometimes feel in our lives: losses both concrete and hard to define. The winter poems move to the center of the book, where a few of the poems are as dark as Hades' world. Then, moving towards spring, we find healing and tenderness. Through the everyday process of loss and compromise, we can also find much to gain in growth and experience. Our relationships are fuller and we can also know joy.
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"In Seeds of the Pomegranate Sherry Lazarus Ross extends the everyday moment into deep mythology, using the commonplace as an avenue into the emotions. She understands Eliot's insistence on "the objective correlative." -- POET magazine, Cooper House Publishing, Inc. Oklahoma City, OK

"Sherry is a conjurer of vivid images. Poetry flourishes in her observant imagination. Her verse is like condensed life or nature concentrate...." --
Dr. Vern G. Swanson, Director of the Springville Museum of Art, Utah;author, lecturer and essayist:The Biography & Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings of Sir Lawerence Tadema; Hidden Treasures of Russian and Soviet Impressionism 1930-1970 as two examples of his work

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I wrote my first poem when I was eleven. My feelings had been hurt by a friend and this was the catalyst for the poem. The experience left me with a sense of pleasure and satisfaction that was both startling and memorable. I knew I wanted to repeat the process again. Today, at fifty, writing poetry enables me to evaluate how I view life at a given moment. As I grow and change, so do my poems. Poetry for me is a way of processing experience. Everything passes through the metaphorical filter of making poems. I don't really know why. Other people have other ways of making sense out of their lives. When I studied with the poet David Ignatow he taught us something important. He often reminded us that all people have noble and insightful thoughts. The thing that makes a poet a poet is the unique way in which he or she says the same things. David was a true mentor as well as a great poet. He helped us each find our "unique" way. The joy of writing poetry is that you get to share your feelings with others in the finished product. I've had the pleasure of that experience with family, friends, and other poets, but this is my first published book of poems. I hope that these poems will touch or delight those who read them.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Well Fire Publications; First Paperback Edition (April 29, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 53 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0615111335
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0615111339
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
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Sherry Lazarus Ross
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Ms. Ross is editor-in-chief for the Art Renewal Center, (ARC) www.artrenewal.org, a non-profit art educational website and foundation that offers art scholarships, sponsors an increasingly well-known international art contest and supports and promotes 75 art schools and workshops around the country and the world.

Follow the world of vinetropes at www.vinetrope.com

Ms. Ross also has a cookbook, the Sorrell Ridge Cookbook, and a book of poetry to her credit, Seeds of the Pomegranate. She studied with the American poet, David Ignatow, in the late 70s at the New York City Y and credits Ignatow with teaching her how to heighten the emotional strength of a poem. Ms. Ross studied art at the Arts Student League in NYC and had a one-person show of her fantasy sculptures many years ago, but has since made writing her creative focus. She has also lectured on poetry and writing to middle school children and adolescents.

The Vinetrope Adventures: Book 1, Return of the Vinetropes is her first published novel. Sherry lives with her husband, Fred Ross and their three cats in the middle of the woods, not too far from her daughter Kara Ross, her son-in-law Sean Colon and her two wonderful little granddaughters, Anna and Kayleigh, who she hopes to read The Vinetrope Adventures to one day. Sherry believes life is indeed miraculous with many surprising twists and turns along the way.

Check out her new website, at www.vinetrope.com to learn more about vinetropes! The vinetrope website will be sponsoring fun and creative contests for children as well as entertaining and educational video blogs.

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The Vinetrope Adventures: Return of the Vinetropes, Book One is the fulfillment of a childhood dream. I grew up in a home where writing and art was a daily process. My younger sister Rochelle and I were encouraged to read, write, draw and paint from an early age. Our mom, Marjorie Olson, had written and published 40 or so romance stories in various magazines when we were little and we didn't even know about it! Our dad, Leon Lazarus, who eventually wrote freelance, started out after the II War working for Stan Lee at Marvel Comics. He told us that he wrote over 800 comic stories during the earlier days of his writing career and he had many funny stories to share with us about working with Stan. Dad also wrote several golden books for children and in one he made me and my cousin James the hero and heroine. That was very exciting to us.

Our dad’s brothers, Sidney and Harry Lazarus, were artists and illustrators, illustrating many books, and several were for children, a few of which they both wrote and illustrated. Sidney, who passed in 1972, had a beautiful retrospective of his work this past year at Shepherd W & K galleries in NYC. So writing and art was a natural and daily event for us and the sound of our dad typing at night would often be the last sounds we heard before falling asleep. The apartment was small and our parents were night owls.

Yet writing and art was something the adults did and it wasn't till I was 12 and read the novel, At the Back of the North Wind, by the 19th century Scottish author, George MacDonald, that I knew I wanted to write too. That book had such a profound effect on me. I cried at the end when Diamond died and went to the back of the north wind and I carried a lump of grief in my throat for several days, maybe as much for the story being over, that beautifully written story, as for Diamond's passing. This was the book that made me want to write. I felt that if I could move one child half as much as I was moved by MacDonald, I would consider my work a success.

It wasn't until later, after reading Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, re-reading the Alice in Wonderland books of Lewis Carroll, and of course C. S. Lewis's Narnia Chronicles that I came to learn that all three of these most beloved fantasy authors were deeply influenced by George MacDonald too. In fact, Lewis Carroll was a close friend of the MacDonald family. It was MacDonald who encouraged him to finish his first Alice in Wonderland book and to get it published. MacDonald tested the story out on his own children and they loved it.

C. S. Lewis so loved MacDonald that he credits him with changing the direction of his life, away from the dark and into the light. Lewis wrote that MacDonald is one of the greatest myth makers of all time. And Tolkien is often cited as saying that MacDonald was one of his most beloved authors as a child and that The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie were two of his most favorite childhood books.

Even Edward Eager, one of my favorite 20th century authors, who wrote The Time Garden and Half Magic, said that he was deeply inspired by George MacDonald. And still later I learned that the poet W H Auden, Madeleine L’Engle of The Wrinkle in Time, and E. Nesbit of Five Childern and IT, all claimed MacDonald to have been a meaningful influence and much loved author. So, when 12, I guess I picked the right mentor. I hope I have made MacDonald proud.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2011
    If you like to reflect on life's depth, this is the book for you. The poetry will reach out to you with it's images of ordinary objects and events containing life's mysteries. This book is not just for women. I am a male and enjoyed it immensely. As the author of the book, she writes in the feminine, with poems of little girls, older women, herself, etc., but the experiences she paints transcends gender. I am at the time in my life where I ponder these very same realities that she writes about. And "Sunday in January" made me feel better after I read it. This collection of poems has a theme of seeing life through nature and the seasons. The book starts with the poem "Persephone" and ends with the poem "Demeter." If you are a human being you must have this book.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2015
    Beautiful. I haven't studied poetry as a subject since grade school, and I sometimes feel I am not getting thee nuances of good poetry. This book is full of rich prose that I *get*; it moves me, but is not simple.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2000
    Seeds of the Pomegranate helped me, if just for a moment, stop my busy day and see it with a keener eye, remember things that I had long forgotten, and escape to places I had never been or would willingly return. With a true poet's voice, Sherry Ross takes the commonplace and gives it vitality. I shall return to Seeds of the Pomegranate when I am in need of refreshing.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2021
    Not only was the poetry gorgeous, but I learned the story of Persephone, a woman I'd only heard of, but didn't really dig deeper. The imagery attached to each poem is breathtaking, in particular Light & Dark and View From The Boardwalk I connected with. Ross has a beautiful talent that is for sure. I feel wiser and somehow more worldly by reading these amazing poems. Also, they made me very excited for Fall!

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  • BarbaraL
    5.0 out of 5 stars An inspiring collection of poetry
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2021
    What a delightful and inspiring collection! A wealth of beautifully described detail is used to explore the universality of the human experience. Every poem is full of arresting imagery that takes the reader on a journey into a different yet deeply familiar world.

    Poems I particularly like are ‘Endings’ ‘Griefs’ ‘Looking back’ and ‘End of Summer’ but in truth all of the poems spoke to me on many levels. One of the longer poems, ‘View from the Boardwalk’, although set on the other side of the Atlantic, reminded me so vividly of my own childhood holidays, and those feelings were captured in the final image ‘a grain of joy, melting on the tongue.’ I would argue that all the poems in the collection are just such grains of joy.

    Highly recommended. A collection to read and re-read. I’ll certainly be doing that.