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The Red Window
a book of poems by Marianne Aweagon Broyles
Marianne Aweagon Broyles is a mental
health worker who has learned to take complex people and situations and
convey empathy and understanding of them in a very few poetic words.
This talent lets her explore
emotions, convictions and tribulations so convincingly that the reader
"feels it" in a very few minutes. Her words give you cause to stop and
reflect what the subjects of her poems must have felt. She talks of her
Native American heritage, what it is like to be an outcast due to mental
illness, the plight of our diminishing natural world.There is strength and clarity in her
words.
Marianne grew up in Boston and Boothbay
Harbor, Maine and in Tennessee. She is an enrolled member of the
Cherokee Nation and a graduate of Emory University. She works as a
psychiatric nurse in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Red Window is her
first book, and is a very impressive work. It is one of those books
where the words will come back to you often.
We interviewed Marianne on our
online radio show, Champagne Sundays, on October 12, 2008. To hear the entire,
unedited show, please
click here. To listen to Marianne's
interview and poem recitals, please double click
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The Red
Window is available from the University of New
Mexico Press at
www.UNMPress.com
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The Red Window
