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    Writing With Our Blood
    Writing With Our Blood
    Writing With Our Blood
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    Writing With Our Blood

    By Toni Ortner

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    A poetry collection about women and their experiences in a time when women were emerging on their own.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherToni Ortner
    Release dateJan 23, 2013
    ISBN9781937050573
    Writing With Our Blood
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    Toni Ortner

    Toni Ortner lives in Brattleboro, Vermont where she is Vice President of the Write Action Board, a nonprofit organization that sponsors evengts and readings for writers in New England. She is the point person for the Write Action Radio Hour and hosts her own show the fourth Sunday of each month where she interviews writers and they read work. The program can be streamed on line at wvew.org Toni has had l4 books published by fine small presses. In 2012 Summoned (Goose River Press) was published. It is about six famous women who heard the call of the Divine and altered their lives to change history. These women speak in first person. Reviews of Summoned are online at Amazon reviews. The book can be ordered through gooseriverpress.com or as an e book. In 2012 Writing With Our Blood was published by Moon Publishing Company. The book honors 20th century women: writers, artists, survivors of war. There is a section devoted to Lyn Lifshin based on letters, a section on mothers and daughters and women friends The book can be ordred at www.moon publiishing. com or as an e book. In 2013 three new books will be published. A White Page Demands Its Letters and Traveling, a Perspective will be ;published by unboundcontent.com. Traveling, a Perspective is about a woman' transition after divorce. It is an honest, breathtaking account. Review by Lyn Lifshin can be seen on web.me,com/Ver,ontviews/vermontviews/Reviews Old%26New.html. Double Jeopardy will be published by Finishing Line Press. Toni is available for readings and teaching.

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      Writing With Our Blood - Toni Ortner

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      WRITING WITH OUR BLOOD

      C Toni Ortner

      The Moon Publishing & Printing

      Cover design by Kayanna M. Smith and Ali Noel Vyain

      Copyright © 2011 by C Toni Ortner

      Copyright © 2011 by Janet Zimmer Photography

      Published by The Moon Publishing & Printing at Smashwords

      No part of this book can be reproduced without permission.

      The Moon Publishing & Printing

      ISBN: 978-1-937050-57-3

      Dedicated to Helen Goldberg, visionary artist of the 20th century

      Mother, in a dream I go back to your house

      I’d like to write a letter to the son you lost

      After Surgery

      Let the Rain Be My Winding Sheet

      All these poems appeared in

      http://web.me.com/vermontviews/MonkeysCloak html

      Love Song for Lisa Michelle appeared in Saranac Review Fall 2012.

      I admit I was never the laughing blond cherub

      —Soundings, Winter 2012

      Contents

      For Jane Alexander, From Our Windowed Universe

      Note to a Young Vietnamese Woman

      For Adrienne Rich

      Dear Mary Cassatt,

      Game’s Up (For Sylvia Plath)

      Bread Poem for a Friend

      Sister Camilla/Watts/May 22, 1974

      Dear Virginia,

      Dear Virginia Woolf,

      Dream of Toby Berman-Rossi

      The Woman Floating in the South China Sea

      Rosh Hashanah Poem for Helen Schuman

      Third Poem for Helen

      Poems for Lyn Lifshin

      Untitled

      Dear Lyn,

      Dear Lyn,

      Dear Lyn,

      Dear Lyn,

      Poem for Lyn Lifshin in Seven Parts

      Dear Lyn,

      Dear Lyn,

      Untitled

      For Denise Levertov, after seeing a note she scrawled in the margin of my manuscript

      For Jeri Rose, (after 17 years)

      Open This Letter

      Dear Alice,

      Dear Barbara,

      Poems for My Daughter

      First Poem for Lisa

      For Lisa, Why I Nicknamed You Fish

      Little Fur Bunny

      Untitled

      Love Binds

      Nightscape (for Lisa and Maia)

      Love Song for Lisa Michelle

      Untitled

      Lisa,

      For My Obstetrician

      Poems for My Mother

      Untitled

      Dear Mother,

      Mother,

      Two Mothers

      Mother,

      Untitled

      Letter from Mother

      After the Hysterectomy

      August 3

      The genitals of a woman are beautiful.

      Imagined House

      Untitled

      Untitled

      A woman tries to find a word.

      Autobiography

      For Jane Alexander, From Our Windowed Universe

      When we were six

      from our windowed universe we saw the stars stumble from the sky.

      The sun reared white and wild like a stallion at dawn.

      A rusted gate concealed a hole in the hedge

      we ducked behind to stand in silence and survey the woods.

      When we were six

      our days were long and we lingered late.

      Listening to the stir of leaves

      what secrets were whispered.

      Where are you now, Jane?

      In what darkened city do you sit

      a silhouette in a window watching flickering lights

      waiting for footsteps that never

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