Helen Steiner Rice-The Healing Touch: Poems, Letters, and Life Stories

by Ronald Pollitt, Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Wiltse

The Healing Touch is as much a guidebook for personal healing as it is a tribute to Mrs. Rice's inspiring qualities.The book is divided into six sections, each dealing with a specific loneliness, depression, disability, infirmity, adversity, and loss. In every chapter Mrs. Rice's poems and previously unpublished letters, and the testimonials of her readers, witness to the way her life and work have inspired others and continue to inspire them today.Based on twelve healing attitudes Mrs. Rice cultivated in herself, The Healing Touch gives readers helpful spiritual wisdom and practical advice for confronting and learning from all of life's challenges. With its rich, two-color format, this is the perfect gift to give someone special -- even yourself.

218 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1998

Reviews

[Judith Hall Simon · Rating 4 out of 5]

The poems by Helen Steiner Rice touch and calm the hurting heart. It was interesting to read life stories of some who were thus affected by her writing. I was encouraged that Helen Steiner Rice, who suffered a great deal throughout her life, clung to her belief in God and shared her outlook on life through her God-given gift of poetry. However, I thought the authors (Pollitt and Wiltse) were somewhat stiff in their presentation.