{"product_id":"words-make-a-way-through-fire-healing-after-my-brothers-suicide-paperback","title":"Words Make a Way Through Fire: Healing After My Brother's Suicide - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCyra Sweet Dumitru\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers in search of emotional and spiritual healing, a courageous, gripping memoir of one woman's journey of gradually healing her traumatized memory through poetry, swimming, and the intuited guidance of a spiritual presence named Voice.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWords Make a Way through Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate, courageous memoir of a woman shattered by witnessing her eldest brother's horrific suicide when she was a teenager. The book traces her creative journey of recovery and healing with poetry as a constant companion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe primary means of Cyra Dumitru's healing process, from age sixteen through adulthood, is writing poetry and journaling. During this decades-long journey, Cyra experiences a transcendent, loving presence called Voice who guides her and helps her imagine wholeness. She finds community with others through the sharing of poems. She studies poetry as craft and as medicine--becoming a published poet with multiple books, an award-winning college instructor of poetry writing, and a certified practitioner of poetic medicine who creates spaces where others can heal through poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWords Make a Way through Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, Cyra explores the specific medicinal properties of poetry--giving order to interior anxiety, trusting the wisdom within--and invites her brother David to speak through her as he reflects upon his final hours. In doing so, poem by poem, she shifts gradually from being traumatized and feeling haunted to feeling empowered and spiritually expansive.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCyra Sweet Dumitru \u003c\/b\u003eis a published poet and instructor of poetry, and one of four certified practitioners of poetic medicine in Texas. Her poems have appeared on the walls of City Hall, been spoken on national public radio and in museums, and appeared in city newspapers and national literary journals. Her collections of poems include \u003ci\u003eWhat the Body Knows\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eListening to Light\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRemains\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eElder Moon\u003c\/i\u003e. She offers therapeutic writing circles for adults learning to live with trauma, bereavement, depression, anxiety, and religious trauma. Cyra lives in San Antonio, Texas with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.43 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44419397517414,"sku":"9781647429522","price":25.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/VgtrgHcZtp9781647429522.webp?v=1770108690","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/words-make-a-way-through-fire-healing-after-my-brothers-suicide-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}