‘Drawing on his extensive experience as an educator, clinician, researcher, and poet, Dr. Mazza has created a seminal, essential text for the field of poetry therapy. He provides abundant resources of poetry and technique that bring the heart of genuine emotion to the head of cognitive learning and behavioral transformation. Moving clinical vignettes illustrate his inspired application of literature with varied populations, issues, and theoretical perspectives. Mazza is a gifted teacher who shows us how and why poetic reading, writing, and ritual are vital components of therapeutic practice.’ – Peggy Osna Heller, Ph.D. Past-President, National Association for Poetry Therapy; Co-Director, Wordsworth Center for Poetry Therapy Training

‘While the healing value of poetry is undeniable, its clinical applications have tended to be ignored, uncharted, and underestimated-until now. In this remarkable volume, Nicholas Mazza shows convincingly how metaphor, imagery, and language can assuage the thorniest ills, and ameliorate the most surprising forms of dysfunction. Poetry Therapy belongs on every sensitive clinician’s desk!’ – Kirk J. Schneider , Ph.D., Senior Editor, Handbook of Humanistic Psychology; President, Existential-Humanistic Institute

‘Dr. Nicholas Mazza’s landmark book on poetry therapy, is a beautifully written and conceived work that is an invaluable guide to sophisticated clinical practitioners who recognized the power of the written word and its potential for healing; its appearance is an occasion for celebration.’ – George S. Getzel, D.S.W., Professor Emeritus, Hunter College of the City University of New York

‘While the healing value of poetry is undeniable, its clinical applications have tended to be ignored, uncharted, and underestimated-until now. In this remarkable volume, Nicholas Mazza shows convincingly how metaphor, imagery, and language can assuage the thorniest ills, and ameliorate the most surprising forms of dysfunction. Poetry Therapy belongs on every sensitive clinician’s desk!’ – Kirk J. Schneider , Ph.D., Senior Editor, Handbook of Humanistic Psychology; President, Existential-Humanistic Institute

‘Dr. Nicholas Mazza’s landmark book on poetry therapy, is a beautifully written and conceived work that is an invaluable guide to sophisticated clinical practitioners who recognized the power of the written word and its potential for healing; its appearance is an occasion for celebration.’ – George S. Getzel, D.S.W., Professor Emeritus, Hunter College of the City University of New York