When I am not gazing out of the window, I am writing books, or coaching other writers.
Writing has always been a physical pleasure for me – not just a happy coordination of mind eye and hand, but an engagement of the whole organism, heart and soul, shivers and sweats, liver
belly and lung. Writing is a flow of eros. At its best, it gathers all of me into one place, brings me present, wakes me up, shakes me down, gets me going. Writing brings me alive.
All my books, whatever the subject – poetry, art, a journey through Iran or India – share a common aim: to inspire myself and others to question the way we live, encouraging us, before we die, to live into the best that we are.
I run periodic classes on The Art of Memoir in the Bay Area and offer private sessions as a writing coach and editor. I also lead a literary tour of England, and a journey in the footsteps of the Impressionists in Provence. Send me an email for more details.
My next book, TEN POEMS TO SAY GOODBYE, will be published in February 2012 by Crown Books.
We can be at a loss for what to say when a relationship ends, when our friend or lover dies, when we wake up one morning and realize that a whole period of our life – our youth, our career, our healthy body, perhaps, is no longer what it was. This is where poetry shines. My book is a reflection on the tender places that emerge when we say goodbye. You can pre-order it here:http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Poems-Goodbye-Roger-Housden/dp/0307885992/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320262095&sr=8-1
