{"product_id":"writing-naked-coleen-marks-9780578476049","title":"Writing Naked","description":"\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' d but 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Coleen Marks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0578476045\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780578476049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coleen Schlaffer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14d","brand":"Coleen Marks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43920252829951,"sku":"9780578476049","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_42226ed6-62f0-464a-8c27-db398089efb8.jpg?v=1680814383","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-naked-coleen-marks-9780578476049","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}