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Kauffman</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.njmadv.com " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.njmadv.com "><U>www.njmadv.com</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> "With love and gratitude to the women</div> <div> who wove a safety net for me."</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Poet's Statement:</B></div> <bR> <div> For years, as a writer, I've been searching for a story to tell.  It wasn't until quite recently that I realized that there was only one story that I needed to tell.  If it weren't for the example and encouragement of the poets who have become my mentors, I would never have had the courage to put these poems on paper.  Time and again I would write what would seem a horrendously vulnerable poem, only to hear from my honest readers that I was still cowering between the lines.</div> <div> This collection represents several years of sharpening my voice and mustering the nerve (and perhaps the audacity) to create the poems that are the building blocks of one precarious, towering, possibly indomitable life.  </div> <bR> <div> From the Book:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1c3191f0.png" border=0 width="25" height="31" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Maiandra GD" >The Road</FONT></div> <bR> <div> It started with Anne Waldman</div> <div>      chanting Ginsberg's mantras.</div> <div> Bite off the eraser, spit it in the dirt.</div> <bR> <div> Then too, there was the teacher by the river</div> <div>      with her promise of rebirth.</div> <div> A life casts its reflection when held before a mirror-</div> <div> the dead merely shudder and dissolve.</div> <bR> <div> A child flows from a pen-</div> <div> a girl sewn shut on paper, singing</div> <div> as she sinks in her warm bath.</div> <bR> <div> Now the dark.  Hands move,     </div> <div> drawing ghosts.  Boys worm </div> <div> through the floor, fingers cling </div> <div> to the second-floor sills.</div> <div> A naked girl crouches </div> <div> against a tree, film of salty night </div> <div> against her skin.</div> <bR> <div> White-fingered incubus stirs beneath the bed.</div> <bR> <div> Winds move dust</div> <div>           around the cornstalks browning in the field.</div> <bR> <div> Once in motion,</div> <div>           not even words can change</div> <div>           the direction of the swirl.</div> <bR> <div> Bare heel on the dirt path, bare toes on the cooling macadam,</div> <div>           slick street around the bend.</div> <bR> <div> No outlet in sight from here.</div> <bR> <div> Not a light for miles around.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Bio:</B></div> <div> <I>First I Learn My </I>Name is Maria McDonnell's first book-length collection of poetry.  Her poems have been published in print and online literary magazines including <I>Paradigm, Steel Point Quarterly</I> and<I> Parlor.</I> <I> S</I>he has received awards from <I>Writer's Digest </I>and<I> </I>Mulberry Poets and Writers Association.  Her poem “Joyride” has been nominated for Pushcart Prize XXXIII (2009 edition).  McDonnell teaches English courses at Albright College in Reading, PA.  She also conducts poetry and creative writing workshops for students of all ages, and she has served on the board of directors for the grassroots poetry organization, Berks Bards.  McDonnell lives in Berks County Pennsylvania with her husband, Tom Sandor, and their three sons.  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>First I Learn My Name</I></div> <div> is a 68 page hand-stitched paper book w/spine.</div> <div> $16.00</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE  </div> <bR> <div> From the US or Canada       <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - 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