My second book is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and is bullied to the point to where he shoots up his school. I have divided the excerpts from it into three parts: Before, during and after the shooting.
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
"A woman of age and experience" living, volunteering, dancing salsa, and writing in Guatemala.
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Former psychotherapist and teacher who can't help writing. Born to two writers, the written and spoken word are for me rich pleasures. But best of all is to write about the ineffable - the sensory world, the spiritual world, the world of feelings. I used to write songs, and thus the rhythm of words - whether in poetry or prose - is important to me. I want to keep stretching myself - both personally, and in continuing to write.
Favorite authors? Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Lamott, Alice Munro, Doris Lessing.
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