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    Over Exposed
    Over Exposed
    Over Exposed
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    Over Exposed

    By Terri Muuss

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    In the pages that follow, Muuss brings us close to what we might describe as the secret war, the intimate war, which resides in closed rooms, in seemingly ordinary homes. Yet these poems are written, reader, with such delicacy, such concern for image, for pause, and purpose-for, in fact, beauty.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCasa de Snapdragon
    Release dateAug 22, 2013
    ISBN9781937240240
    Over Exposed
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    Terri Muuss

    Terri Muuss is a poet, writer and performer. Her poetry/prose one-woman show, Anatomy of a Doll, received grants from New York Foundation for the Arts and Poets and Writers and was named “Best Theatre: Critics’ Pick of the Week” by the New York Daily News; it has been performed throughout the US and Canada since 1998. Terri’s poetry has appeared in Bolts of Silk, Apercus Quarterly, Long Island Quarterly, Red River Review, JB Stillwater and Whispers and Shouts and her poem “Rialto Beach” won the 2013 Great Neck Poetry Prize. She was also the co-producer and host of the monthly Manhattan poetry series Poetry at the Pulse for two years.

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      Over Exposed - Terri Muuss

      O V E R

      E X P O S E D

      O V E R

      E X P O S E D

      a poetic memoir

      Terri Muuss

      JB Stillwater Publishing Company

      Albuquerque, New Mexico

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2013 Terri Muuss, all rights reserved.

      Smashwords Edition

      No portion of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of Terri Muuss, unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law. Address inquiries to Permissions, JB Stillwater Publishing Company, 12901 Bryce Avenue NE, Albuquerque, NM 87112.

      Author’s Note: This book is based on my experiences over a four decade period. It is told as accurately as possible given the constraints of memory and time. Some names and identifying details have been changed, some characters and events compressed.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Muuss, Terri.

      Over exposed : a poetic memoir / Terri Muuss.

      pages cm

      ISBN 978-1-937240-23-3 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-937240-24-0 (epub)

      I. Title.

      PS3613.U87O94 2013

      811'.6--dc23

      2013007717

      JB Stillwater Publishing Company

      12901 Bryce Avenue, NE

      Albuquerque, NM 87112

      http://www.jbstillwater.com

      To Matt—for Lincoln Center fountains

      and shoes that fit

      CONTENTS

      Foreword by Veronica Golos

      Prologue: Panorama

      SHUTTER

      Memories Come

      Wild Violets

      Flashback: Corner of 183rd Street

      Scarlet Letter

      Second Grade

      Sunday Morning Blue

      Father’s Secret Drawer

      The Date

      Hunter

      From Above

      Inner Monsoon

      FOCUS

      What Heals

      The Shoe

      At the End

      Between the Dark and the Daylight

      The T-Shirt

      In a Hole

      Closet

      Passing

      Feeding

      Comfort Food

      Voices/Litany #1

      Late

      Elkins, NH

      CLICK

      Pieces

      Neighbor

      Sixteen, Going Down

      Basement Party, Brooklyn

      Life of the Party

      Stewart’s Root Beer Stand

      Cameo

      Perfect

      Beaten Path

      Waiting at Penn Station

      Meeting

      8 Hull Drive

      2:06 AM

      DEVELOP

      Spawning of the Horseshoe Crabs

      Baby

      Watching Him Go

      Blank Day

      Funeral

      Perfect #2

      The Bar

      If/Litany #2

      On the Couch

      Back to the Old House

      Bones

      Backyard Patient

      Hungry

      Christmas Eve, 1979

      Rialto Beach

      Epilogue: Finish Line

      About the Contributors

      Acknowledgements & Thanks

      Notes

      FOREWORD

      If you bring forth what is in you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

      (Gnostic) Gospel of St. Thomas

      I remember the first time I saw Terri Muuss perform her one-woman show, Anatomy of a Doll. Wherever she moved on stage, there was a light, not just on her, but in her. She’d written the performance pieces as poems over a number of years, in workshops I’d led. Over those years, as her work came to light, literally, it felt as if I were looking into a deep green pool, as each piece would rise, sink, rise again.

      I say this because the fact of this book at all is extraordinary. These poems will take you into the artery of memory, memory in fact that comes not as a seamless whole, but in fragments, in off-center snapshots. Why?

      Because Terri Muuss is speaking of the un speak able. She is speaking of trauma. But do not turn away. For out of that harsh crucible, she has come to affirm, she has come to show what poetry can do.

      In the landmark book, Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman, MD, delineates the dialectic for those who have experienced trauma: The will to deny – the will to proclaim is the dialectic of psychological trauma. We have all perhaps read folktales about ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. There is wisdom in this.

      As we enter into yet another year of war(s) abroad, and soldiers come home, we see the effects of trauma; we see it in the streets, in the hospitals, the jails, and in the homeless. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. By now we have learned its initials. But also we see art being made out of the madness: Brian Turner, Bruce Weigl, Yusef Komunyakaa, among others.

      My own poetry book, Vocabulary of Silence, written from the viewpoint of a Witness-From-Afar to the continued US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and

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