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    28 Years Since My Last Confession: Selected Poems
    28 Years Since My Last Confession: Selected Poems
    28 Years Since My Last Confession: Selected Poems
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    28 Years Since My Last Confession: Selected Poems

    By Catherine Powers

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    It took so long to bring this book to print. I don't quite know why. I think maybe a few people had to die first. What I know now is that for a long time I stopped myself from getting my poetry out into the big, blue world because I followed the internal rule that I learned in my family, which was "this doesn't go outside the family." Since most of my writing was about my family this presented a conundrum. It took many years to break this rule and I still fight it almost every time I sit down to write.

    The book's grand themes: Death, Loss, Divorce, Bad Relationships, Toxic Family Issues, Addiction & My Catholic Upbringing. And, before you say "Wow, what a bummer," you need to know that I write with great humor and grace. That's what they say about me anyway. I like to think my work tragic and comic in the Irish tradition. Or, as my good friend, W.B. Yeats wrote, "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." Just change "he" to "she" and that should explain a great deal of my world view.

    My work has been compared to Sharon Olds, Hal Sirowitz and David Sedaris. I'm not making that up. It really has been compared to those writers.

    Enough! Read a few of my poems and judge for yourself.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateNov 8, 2013
    ISBN9781491704462
    28 Years Since My Last Confession: Selected Poems
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    Catherine Powers

    Catherine born on an air force base in Hempstead, Long Island, NY and grew up in Northampton, MA (home of Calvin Coolidge, Smith College, and where Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf was filmed). Her family later moved to Dearborn Heights, MI. Catherine’s first attempt at poetry in high school garnered an award from Scholastic magazine and the Detroit Free Press. She has published several poems and short stories in local and regional journals and magazines and won several literary awards. Catherine holds two Masters’ degrees, so you know that definitely says something! Catherine has worked as a psychotherapist, consultant/trainer, teacher, and college administrator. Her non-professional life has included stints as a pizza delivery girl, valet parker, waitress, and hotel maid (for two days at the Dearborn Travel Lodge until it was announced her shift would begin at 5 a.m.--whereupon she quickly quit in protest.) 28 Years Since My Last Confession is her first published book of poetry.

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