“In Bare Root: A Poet’s Journey with Breast Cancer, Anne Silver offers praise to life in all its pain and beauty. There is enormous courage and hard-won affirmation in these poems. She teaches us how to say, along with her, ‘I have loved it all’.”
- Ellen Bass
Award Winning Poet & Author

“Anne Silver is one of the most stunning, prolific, compassionate, and original poets writing today. She is also one of the bravest. I treasure her work.“
- Naomi Shihab Nye,
Award Winning Poet & Author

“Anne Silver inspires us with her poetic navigation through the dark waters of breast cancer. She courageously transforms terror and rage into the life affirming waters of hope, healing, and love. With poems that implode with the brightness of a sun, Bare Root: A Poet’s Journey with Breast Cancer can raise all of our spirits.”
-W. Brugh Joy M.D.,
Author of In Joy’s Way

“Such good work you do!”
- Billy Collins
US Poet Laureate 2001-2003,
Award Winning Poet & Author