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Sleeping with the Moon

By: Colleen J. McElroy

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PEN Oakland National Literary Award, 2008 Colleen J. McElroy's poetry shoots for the moon, and takes it in, too, in one way after another. The collection’s award-winning poems animate women’s experiences of sex, shopping, and dancing, while offering telling insight into the struggles and silver lining of lust, love, illness, and aging. Rich with vivid imagery and candid storytelling, Sleeping with the Moon takes readers on moonlit adventures under the night sky, through the barroom’s smoky haze, and under the covers. ...Beware: such delicate sights have driven more than one woman to despair instead she watched him breathe-- relishing for a moment that secret space where night grows soft and the moon’s detumescence forgives-- and where if this jeweled light holds they might strip themselves of years if only for one night --from “In Praise of Older Women”

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University of Illinois Press

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0252056019

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9780252056017

What Madness Brought Me Here

New and Selected Poems, 1968–1988

By: Colleen J. McElroy

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What Madness Brought Me Here

New and Selected Poems, 1968–1988

By: Colleen J. McElroy

A collection of new and old poems that explore the relationship between language and the self.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819511889

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9780819511881

Over the Lip of the World

Among the Storytellers of Madagascar

By: Colleen J. McElroy

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Over the Lip of the World

Among the Storytellers of Madagascar

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Gifted travel writer, poet, professor of English, and insightful observer of human nature, Colleen McElroy journeyed to Madagascar to undertake a Fulbright research project exploring Malagasy oral traditions and myths. In Over the Lip of the World she depicts with equal verve the various storytelling traditions of the island and her own adventures in trying to find and record them. McElroy’s tale of an African American woman’s travels among the people of Madagascar is told with wit, insight, and humor. Throughout it she interweaves English translations of Malagasy stories of heroism and morality, royalty and commoners, love and revenge, and the magic of tricksters and shapechangers.

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University of Washington Press

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0295997648

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9780295997643

Here I Throw Down My Heart

By: Colleen J. McElroy

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Here I Throw Down My Heart

By: Colleen J. McElroy

The poems in Here I Throw Down My Heart prompt readers to see beyond the surface of images, whether that surface is a uniform, a prescribed setting, a familiar geography, or the surface that evokes the most social commentary, skin—the body itself. The modern world moves at a greater speed than the world of a few generations ago, so we look for ways to sort our likes and dislikes, to set our comfort zones. These poems say: "don't believe everything you see, look again." The poems look at how borders between countries, or between genders and class have deepened the lines between the haves and have-nots. While everyone is on a collision course for lack of food and water, those dividing lines seem more impenetrable than ever, underscoring the disparity between gender, race, and class.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822978431

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9780822978435

What Madness Brought Me Here

New and Selected Poems, 1968–1988

By: Colleen J. McElroy

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New and Selected Poems, 1968–1988

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A collection of new and old poems that explore the relationship between language and the self.

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Blood Memory

By: Colleen J. McElroy

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Blood Memory

By: Colleen J. McElroy

Blood Memory, Colleen J. McElroy's collection of narrative poetry, emerges from deep seated memories with enormous emotion. Through the rhythms and musicality unique to McElroy's voice, it portrays an extended family, a complex culture spanning several decades, multiple victories and failures, and a single brilliant soul that frames the poems. Dedicated to McElroy's mother, the book is universal in its scope, inescapable in its earthy particularity. McElroy writes, "I am the last female of a family/ of women who wove the fabric/ of stories into doilies and slip coversÉ/" Blood Memory offers consummate storytelling and unforgettable poetry capturing a place and time gone forever. And as an evolving history, the poetry has a cinematic quality, large and intimate and at the same time, characters utterly vivid.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822981327

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9780822981329

Queen of the Ebony Isles

By: Colleen J. McElroy

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Queen of the Ebony Isles

By: Colleen J. McElroy

An award-winning poetry collection depicting the world of the African American woman.

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0819561010

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9780819561015

Over the Lip of the World

Among the Storytellers of Madagascar

By: Colleen J. McElroy

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Among the Storytellers of Madagascar

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University of Washington Press

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Queen of the Ebony Isles

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Queen of the Ebony Isles

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An award-winning poetry collection depicting the world of the African American woman.

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Book's by Colleen J. McElroy

Sleeping with the Moon

Sleeping with the Moon

What Madness Brought Me Here

What Madness Brought Me Here

Over the Lip of the World

Over the Lip of the World

Here I Throw Down My Heart

Here I Throw Down My Heart

What Madness Brought Me Here

What Madness Brought Me Here

Blood Memory

Blood Memory

Queen of the Ebony Isles

Queen of the Ebony Isles

Over the Lip of the World

Over the Lip of the World

Queen of the Ebony Isles

Queen of the Ebony Isles

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