"Poetry won't sell," said local publishers
when Carol Lynn Pearson and her husband, Gerald, presented them
with the manuscript for Beginnings in 1968. So they published
two thousand copies themselves, believing that they had their
lifetime supply of wedding presents.

Nearly four
decades and 300,000 volumes later, Carol Lynn's poetry has been
internationally acclaimed, reprinted by Ann Landers's newspaper
column, A Second Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul, and
college literary textbooks such as Houghton Mifflin's Structure
and Meaning: An Introduction to Literature.

But more
important, her poems have carved themselves into the hearts of
her loyal following, giving inspiration, smiles, tears, and
always the exact thought needed for a particular talk, lesson,
letter, or personal need. Familiar life situations become
vividly meaningful through Carol Lynn's magic of insight and
imagery--

* One splendid, never-worn red dress in the
otherwise drab wardrobe symbolizes a mother's deathbed regret
at her self-abnegating life and her offspring's resultant
selfishness .

* An elderly farmer smugly contemplates
the inherited land he has dramatically improved and then goes
proudly home to the wife whose potential he has consistently
stifled.

* A woman experiencing her second wedding,
now "an orchard in September, not a branch in May," says "I do"
and knows "I can."

Beginnings & Beyond offers
Carol Lynn's most popular poems to still another generation to
enjoy and treasure.

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