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    Urge to Dance
    Urge to Dance
    Urge to Dance
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    Urge to Dance

    By Joanne Sheehy Hoover

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    URGE TO DANCE IS JOANNE SHEEHY HOOVERS FIFTH POETRY COLLECTION. THIS NEW BOOK BOTH PROBES FOR MEANING IN WHAT HAS TAKEN PLACE IN HER LIFE AND THE WORLD ABOUT HER TO THOUGHTS ABOUT WHAT MIGHT COME NEXT. SUBJECTS ARE WIDE RANGING, FROM SCENES INSPIRED BY THE TIME SHE LIVED ABROAD TO SCENES FROM THE SOUTHWEST WHERE SHE NOW LIVES.
    HER POEMS OFFER PROVOCATIVE INSIGHTS INTO WHAT SHE CALLS THE JOURNEY OF LIFE. IN THE POEM SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING SHE CONJURES UP A VIVID SCENE OF LIFE IN RURAL SCOTLAND WHERE SHE LIVED FOR SEVERAL YEARS. ANOTHER POEM I LOVE CALIFORNIANS TURNS THE FOCUS ON HER COUNTRYMEN WITH A THOUGHTFUL SCENE SET ON THE WEST COAST.
    THERE ARE POEMS THAT SPEAK OF REGRETS ABOUT MISSTEPS MADE IN THE PAST. IN THESE SHE EVOKES VIVIDLY OUR IMPOSSIBLE BUT OH SO HUMAN WISH TO MEND THOSE PAST ERRORS. THE POEM SILENT TEARS TOUCHINGLY DESCRIBES THE PAINS OF MEMORIES THAT NEITHER I NOR THOSE HURT CAN ERASE.
    END GAME IS A CELEBRATION OF THE MYSTERY OF LIFE ON EARTH, THIS SINGULAR PLACE.
    SEEING TRUE DELICATELY DESCRIBES THE PLEASURES AND PAIN OF A COUPLES LONG LIFE TOGETHER AS THEY MOVE TOWARD SEAS FED BY ETERNITY.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateAug 26, 2011
    ISBN9781462034192
    Urge to Dance
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    Joanne Sheehy Hoover

    Joanne Sheehy Hoover is a former music critic and arts feature writer for national publications. She has lived on the east coast,spent a number of years abroad, and now resides in New Mexico. "Urge to Dance" is her fifth collection of poetry.

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      Urge to Dance - Joanne Sheehy Hoover

      Copyright © 2011 by Joanne Sheehy Hoover.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4620-3418-5 (sc)

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      iUniverse rev. date: 07/26/2011

      Contents

      PART I

      Not Poetry Time

      The Poet’s Desire

      Worms

      Not Poetry Time

      Rain

      The Pattern

      Scottish Country Dancing

      I Love Californians

      The Daring

      Draftees

      For Julia Dangerfield Glass

      The Stranger

      Escalator

      Something Loose In My Life

      The Past

      About Forgetting

      PART II

      What Next

      Broken

      No Day A Given

      Homage To John Donne

      Floating

      Crime Scene Caution Do Not Enter

      What Next

      The Martyr

      The Apple Orchard

      Buddhist Recipe

      More About Forgetting

      Wired

      PART III

      So Little Time

      My Face

      Suddenly

      About Forgiveness

      Oh, The Pity

      Night

      On Loan

      Out Of Date

      Reruns

      Seeing True

      A Dream

      At Last

      PART IV

      End Game

      The Ultimate Test

      If Only

      End Game

      Wisteria

      About Time

      About The Word

      Spring In The Country

      Late

      Letting Go

      Trust

      Floating

      Gift

      Burning Up

      Beyond Belief

      Silent Tears

      Soul Speed

      It Is Well

      More Surprises

      The past is present

      and the present is

      ever becoming the past

      PART I

      NOT POETRY TIME

      THE POET’S DESIRE

      Entertainment is not the goal

      I want to feel within my bones

      the reeling punch of well ordered thought,

      that sharp thrust which signals the heart

      has broken free, no longer held

      in chains by the mind’s clerical bent

      I want to search, plumb, pierce

      Catch the ancient echoes within words

      Go deep. Discover throbbing veins

      of

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