Unwrapped By Anne Marie Erskine Words are changeable things with properties like numbers. Words and numbers take on different faces and different values depending on how they develop and what their context is. Words are continuous shapeshifters. Within the mind of a writer, words are a constant presence – hiding, peeking, teasing; seeking to be discovered, revealed, valued, and placed artfully into expression. Words are slippery entities, daring us to catch them and make them behave – be exact within contents, creating the mood, tone, and metaphor we desire. The title Unwrapped refers to the desire to reveal those qualities of words - unwrapping their essence to fit and extend, to spark and to blend in order to communicate meaningfully. Yet the title Unwrapped also refers to the collection of poems that expose the various values of what has been discovered in that unwrapping, presenting not only the unwrapping of words, but also the unwrapping of experiences. Poetry is the perfect art form for unwrapping essences of experience because poetry was created so the story of mankind could be memorized, recited, passed on - enabling us to recall the profound. Poetry is the art of remembering, connecting us intimately, reminding us we are never alone. The experience of the past is the experience of the now is the experience of the future. Nothing is separate. We are connected to all that has ever been, is now, and will be. Words are powerful, but actions are even more so. Beware those who think they can fool The People. We are poets in our very beings. We will unwrap and expose. That is the power and purpose of our art.
Retribution By: Anne Marie Erskine Retribution focuses on the lives of six female bullies, the harm they cause, and the ironic twist they themselves create for their demise. While the subject of the novel itself is serious-bullying-the characters and their deserved endings are, in many ways, exaggerated dark comedies that will surprise and delight the reader, especially those readers who have suffered from the torment of a bully. Retribution presumes that all choices have consequences; that innocents must be protected at all costs; that people have the power, the right, and the duty to stand up for and protect innocents no matter the cost. The hero, Gemini Jones, is a sensitive but strong and resolute character who shows how to help Justice deliver its rightful reckoning. She is a role model for all heroes who desire to bring good and light to the world. Retribution is a novel of hope and satisfaction for those who have been bullied and know that evil must be punished and defeated. It is a novel for all who believe in Justice and want to see it prevail. In the end, Justice always reigns when GOOD fights for it.
Night Fires By: Anne Marie Erskine Night Fires is a collection of poems birthed by the power of creating that lives in all of us – but some people are called to that art through an unstoppable presence that compels expression. That presence I call Night Fires, primarily because for me that urgency awakens me at night when dreams have formed the essence of expression in the dark of the psyche, bringing forth the rhythms of thought demanding form. As such, Night Fires is the essence of the cycle of life: birth and death, birth and death. It is life ever beginning, death transforming it, and life giving it new form again. The cycle is continuous. The subjects of poetry are both personal and universal and found primarily in the human knowing Carl Jung named “the collective unconscious,” which contains archetypes that are universal mental predispositions not grounded in experience, existing independently and known directly by the mind, occurring in all cultures in some form. Critics of this philosophy object to it primarily because it is “difficult to test scientifically,” as if human thought, desire, fear, faith, love, hate can be placed under a microscope. I believe in the “soul of humanity” that connects us all to one another; therefore, I write about things I “know,” communicating the human experience that belongs to no one race, no one culture, no one country, but to us all. All of creation is connected. I believe that all life exists now—those who have died, those who live, those yet to be born exist now—and that the answers to all things exist now. We simply have to search to discover those answers. The human self knows right from wrong. We know when we have chosen one or the other. We know who we are by those choices. We know our form and substance and we are all in need of more consideration to refine our very beings to be a more perfect form. Poetry can give us insight into doing exactly that.
Anne Marie Erskine taught literature for many years, but is now retired and lives with her husband Jim in Prescott, Arizona. She has a Master of Arts in the Humanities from The California State University. Through reading, studying, and teaching literature, Anne Marie became interested in composing poetry. For Anne Marie, writing poetry permits people to understand and express what is breathing within us. Each discovery is a new opening to our world. Reading and writing poetry expose doors we never even knew existed.
Insight" is a collection of recently composed poems arranged in alphabetical order according to title. These poems focus on art and music, truth and falsehood, love and betrayal, which are forces that constantly engage the human spirit. The poems explore the homonyms insight, incite, and in sight. Insight is a heavy burden of discerning the true nature and complexity of situations and their effects. Language and truth must be one with each other or we truly have no way to live together in freedom. Our current prevailing culture pushes upon us lies and deceit. It attacks the very basis of a person's worth by trying to make people believe they have no will, no discipline, and no hope unless it comes from politicians. Writers have a duty to use their talent to expose deceit and to present truth based on fact through their insight. The writing of poetry has been a revolutionary act of truth telling for thousands of years. About the Author Anne Marie Erskine lives with her husband, Jim, in Prescott, Arizona. She has a Master of Arts in the Humanities from The California State University. Through her study of literature, Anne Marie has developed a love of writing poetry for its own beauty and because the writing and reading of poetry results in a mature understanding of life because poetry demands a sharp focus on the exactness of words to express meaning and content and, therefore, an exactness of belief. That discipline helps end solipsistic preoccupations of the self and results in what the Greeks called arete - excellence and virtue in the search for truth and the development of our character and a rejection of the relativistic values and exposing empty slogans for what they are. Our Dream and our Happiness are within, not given by others, and poetry can help us discover that truth and define it for us. Poetry is a form of communication that can awaken truth through our engagement with ourselves and our world. Writing is the perfect way to discover what we believe, what we profess, what we love, and what we will not abide. "Insight" is Anne Marie's second book of published poetry. "Shadow Dance" is her first.
After a brilliant military career, esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon finally meets his death, not in the frenzy of battle but at an elegant London dinner party. His demise appears to be the result of a freak accident, but the general’s beautiful wife, Alexandra, readily confesses that she killed him–a story she clings to even under the threat of the noose. Investigator William Monk, nurse Hester Latterly, and brilliant Oliver Rathbone, counsel for the defense, work feverishly to break down the wall of silence raised by the accused and her husband’s proud family. With the trial only days away, these there sleuths inch toward the dark and appalling heart of the mystery.
General Carlyon is killed in what first appears to be a freak accident. But the general's wife readily confesses that she did it. With the trial only days away the counsel for defense work feverishly to break down the wall of silence.
A fantastically gripping story of love and betrayal, told with the masterful skill of a passionate storyteller. It kept me riveted until the last page!' BARBARA ERSKINE 'Anne O'Brien crosses swathes of time seamlessly. A gorgeous bouquet of a novel. Stunning' CAROL McGRATH 'Tremendous and engrossing' NICOLA CORNICK ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR... The Welsh Marches, 1301 Strong-willed heiress Johane de Geneville is married to Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, at just fifteen years old. Soon Johane finds herself swept up in a world of treacherous court politics and dangerous secrets as her husband deposes Edward II and rules England alongside Queen Isabella. Yet when Roger is accused of treason, she is robbed of her freedom and must survive catastrophic events in her fight for justice - with her life, and her children's, hanging in the balance... Will she pay for her husband's mistakes, or will she manage to escape from a terrible fate? Readers love Anne O'Brien: 'I was spellbound throughout!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Vividly real and unforgettable' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Truly captivating' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'If you love historical heroines and women battling to survive against all the odds, this is for you!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Superbly written, a jolly good read!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) produced a relatively small body of fiction, but she wrote thousands and thousands of letters. The present selection of 135 unexpurgated letters, written to seventy-four different persons, begins with a 1916 letter written from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Texas and ends with a 1979 letter dictated to an unnamed nursing-home attendant in Maryland. Different from any previous selection, this body of letters does not omit Porter's frank criticism of fellow writers and spans her entire life. Within that circumscription is the chronicle of Porter, a twentieth-century woman searching for love while she struggles to become the writer she is sure she can be. Porter's letters vividly showcase the twentieth century as the writer observes it from her historical vantage points--tuberculosis sanatoria and the influenza pandemic of 1918; the leftist community in Greenwich Village in the 1920s; the Mexican cultural revolution of the 1920s and early 1930s; the expatriate community in Paris in the 1930s; the rise of Nazism in Europe between the World Wars; the Second World War and its concomitant suppression of civil liberties; Hollywood and the university circuit as a haven for financially strapped writers in the 1940s and 1950s; the Cold War and its competition for supremacy in space; the Women's Rights and the Civil Rights movements; and the evolution and demise of literary modernism.
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