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    Drawn Parallels
    Drawn Parallels
    Drawn Parallels
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    Drawn Parallels

    By JoAnne Bauer

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    DRAWN PARALLELS
    By JoAnne Bauer, Ph.D.
    Coining the term poemoir to describe her book, prize-winning author JoAnne Bauer tells stories from her life in this two-part collection of narrative and lyric richness. Her past surfaces deftly and often humorously, through complex layers of poetic imagery and memory.
    This ekphrastic project provides thought-enriching overlays and echoings, as Bauer references work of master artists, musicians, philosophers and other literary folks, as well as offering her original mixed media collages and altered photographs.
    In five sections, we travel with her --from a sheltered childhood into armored feminism and past the twists and turns of loves vicissitudes, emerging into good-natured fun and transformed by earned wisdom, ready to reckon with mortalitys abrupt shortcomings. From the immediacy of captured details, her personal and unique path flowers into universal revelations about a womans life fully lived.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateMar 21, 2014
    ISBN9781490711263
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    JoAnne Bauer

    JoAnne Bauer holds a Ph.D. in communication arts and technology and advanced degrees in special education leadership, psychology of religion and philosophy. Co-author of Beyond Technology’s Promise (Cambridge University Press), she presented research articles at national conferences and taught academic writing. Her poetry has received prizes and small press acceptances regionally, nationally, and abroad, including a chapbook by Finishing Line Press. Coining the term poemoir for this collection, JoAnne offers us lyric as well as narrative depth, humorous details, layers of imagery and, ultimately, universal revelations about a life fully lived

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      Drawn Parallels - JoAnne Bauer

      Copyright 2014 JoAnne Bauer.

      All rights reserved. No part 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 written prior permission of the author.

      Cover Photograph: JoAnne Bauer, Back-up Ladies, 2006.

      Interior Images: JoAnne Bauer

      Photograph of Author: Robert Fisher

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      ISBN: 978-1-4907-1125-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4907-1126-3 (e)

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      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      I:    DOUBLE EXPOSURE

      SEEN, BUT NOT HEARD

      Wedding Day, Mom

      Mother Mine

      Secret Space, Still

      Winter’s Morn

      Haiku

      Revived

      Mapping The Family Farm: 16 Steps

      One July, Contented

      Patterns

      Before The Lesson

      Altering Autumn

      Fearing Female

      Measured Parenting

      Dad

      LIVED OUT LOUD

      Please Degas

      Only I Decided

      Country Remembrance

      Search/Sacrosanct

      Haiku

      Drawn In

      If You Happen Upon An Application For A Beauty Pageant: 7 Options

      To City Evenings

      It’s Christmas

      Drawing Scorn

      Not Ready

      … That She Should Be Delivered

      Major Stressors, Compressing

      Treatment

      Full Plate/Served

      II:    TRIPLE PLAY

      WORTH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION

      Talking Memories

      Tiger-Eyed

      Portending Portals

      Leaves

      Ab/Solution

      What I Ask

      Auto Care

      Ex/Hibition

      To Matter

      Haiku

      In October

      MAKING FUN, NATURALLY

      Early June

      Goodwill Hunting

      Forsythia, For You

      Fantastic (Tanfastic)

      Recounting

      Seasons Of Tea

      New Ground

      Flights Of Fancy

      True Feat

      First Light

      So Close

      Sea’s Change

      Wild, In Place

      It Was Snowing; I Was Mowing

      Absorption

      Nov In Nyc,

      Blue Moon

      New Morn

      ALL FALL DOWN

      Vigilance

      About Olives, Mr. Hall

      A Woman Has Needs

      Analogy (Afghanistan)

      Obit (O Boy)

      Ragged/Way Home

      Love Letting

      Ethereal

      Customer

      His Service

      Redeeming Roses

      Pyrrhic

      I Can See Peace

      Afterword

      Appendix

      About the Author

      Acknowledgments

      I am grateful to the editors of the following publications in which versions of these poems

      first appeared:

      Avalon Literary Review (2013): Ab/solution

      Bohemia Art and Literary Magazine (2013):

         Ethereal

      Caduceus (2013): Fantastic (Tanfastic)

      Connecticut River Review (2013): Portending

         Portals

      Encore (2012; 2013): Before the Lesson and

         Wild, in Place

      Granny Smith Magazine (2012): Mother Mine and

         Secret Space, Still

      Journey to Crone (Chuffed Buff Books, 2013):

         Revived

      Long River Run (2011; 2012): His Service and

         Mapping the Family Farm: 16 Steps

      Message in a Bottle Poetry Magazine (2013): Altering

      Autumn and I Can See Peace

      Perspectives (Faxon anthologies 2010; 2011; 2012):

         Flights of Fancy; haiku; So Close; and

         Winter’s Morn

      Poet Tree (Exiles Press, 2014): What I Ask

         and One July, Contented

      Poets Against War (2010): Redeeming Roses and

      Vigilance

      Rhubarb Magazine (2012): … That She Should Be

         Delivered

      seed packets (bottle rockets press, 2010): haiku

      Theodate (2012; 2013): If You Happen Upon …; Please

         Degas; Sea’s Change; and Talking Memories

      30 Day Poetry Challenge Anthology (2012): Auto

         Care; blue moon; and Forsythia, for You

      Verse Land (2013): Country Remembrance;

         Obit (O Boy); Patterns; Treatment;

      and Wedding Day, Mom

      Where Flowers Bloom (Grayson Books, 2011):

         Absorption

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