{"product_id":"writing-naked-paperback","title":"Writing Naked - 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\u003eColeen Marks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting Naked illuminates a life like a series of lightning flashes, allowing us glimpses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eranging over seven decades and six generations, from \"sepia-toned\" great-grandmothers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto a vivid little grandson. The opening poem, \"It's Time,\" with its \"Hey, I'm only\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eseventy-five\" and \"I always do better with deadlines,\" sets the tone for a collection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealways imbued with wit and joy, considering the sacred in the day-to-day, the humorous\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the tragic, the profound in simple clothing. This collection touches on personal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexperiences with feisty kindness and startling drollery. Even the poems of bereavement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand loss are run through by a current of celebration and homage of the particular persons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand through them to life itself. Those dedicated to her father and to the husband who was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"the one\" of her life are particularly strong and poignant. The title poem shows us the I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof this book, writing, sitting naked on a blanket, in full sunshine under a sky of Canaletto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eblue, \"hiding nothing,\" as the poems themselves seem to do. Writing Naked is Coleen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarks' début collection and, yes, it's time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnriqueta Carrington, Translator of Treasury of Mexican Love Poems, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuotations \u0026amp; Proverbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Writing Naked, Coleen Marks gives us personal poems with a wider resonance: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echildhood and coming of age in a large, working class Irish-American family, then an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eadult life of love, work, relationships, and growing older in a long and close marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is an engaging story-teller--in fact the word \"stories\" crops up as a motif throughout\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe book, as she observes \"stories...on the see saw between too simple and too complex.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe writes about day jobs and earning a living (not often the subject of poetry), as well as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher developing feminist consciousness in a male-dominated social milieu. These firstperson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoems tell of loved ones and strangers, hardship and play, art and ardor, captured\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith a down-to-earth thoughtfulness that evokes emotions from carefree (\"A Room with a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eView\") to deeply touching (\"Sgt. Gomez,\" \"At Ninety-One\"). Writing Naked conveys an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eopen-hearted yet clear-eyed optimism, and an ethical commitment to taking one's place in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaxine Susman Author of Gogama and Provincelands\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 60\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 07, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48330586259705,"sku":"9780578476049","price":15.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/oTtiX-4QAJ9780578476049.webp?v=1777380772","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/writing-naked-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}