Loretta Francoeur

Closer to Heaven Loretta Francoeur

Inspired by the people in her life-both friends and strangers-poet Loretta L. Francoeur crafts beautiful verses exploring some of life's most painful and heart-wrenching themes.

Francoeur's experiences working in a hospital and coping with her own mental illness inform her work, wrapping the universal themes of the poems in intensely and immediately personal language and imagery.

Although many people might be dubious about diving headlong into poems about death and grief, readers who do venture into this collection will find tremendous reward in Francoeur's unique spirituality and her messages of healing and sanctuary. Indeed, these poems show us the countervailing forces at work in the universe and the truth that light, despite the darkness, always shines.

With compassion, insight, and a stirring ability to translate emotion into words, Loretta L. Francoeur uses the material from her own struggles to help others illuminate their own paths and find the solace they seek.