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Reviews - Haunting Hands
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“Hauntingly
sensual photographic expressions . .
. I found myself getting lost in this powerful, self portrait in
stanza and photography. I could barely go on reading without first
pausing, to fumble with my emotions . . . Her “painfully
enlightening”
soul served up for each of us to consume in the form of a 47
course poetic
banquet….Her remarkably well done poems involving us all in her story
of
brutal emotion and tender isolation . . . Reassuring others
there is hope in the sunshine of forgiveness.”
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Joseph Barby
Editor-Amrita
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“ . .
.Poems that scream abuse
. . . pleas that fall into the wash with her sheets, only to be
removed-Throwing
a little denial in with the fabric softener/Evidence erased
as the sheets tumble dry.
Nearly every poem is accompanied by self
photos, tinted in the dark hues
of
terror . . . Jaeda
goes the complete peril . . . This
is a collection that shares every aspect
of childhood abuse into adult anguish . . .
The
photography is
extraordinary and worthy of its
own standing.”
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Cheryl
A.Townsend
-Implosion Press
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"An
intimate chapbook . . . as such, it reveals
the devastation experienced by one woman, in one place in time. It's a
story we've all probably heard
before, although rarely so raw and unstudied.
Like Terry Wolverton's Black Slip,
which deals in part with incest, "Haunting
Hands"
is difficult to read in many
places.
The stubborn truth is that many women never fully heal from the effects
of incest, and must get on with their lives as best they can.
Sometimes
this isn't pretty. Recovery from that sort of trauma can be, in
many
cases . . . a life-long struggle. You don't know what your own
experience
might be unless you've been through the same trauma. But you can try to
understand. This book can take you a long way down that particular road
and may help some women articulate their own experience by the
familiarity
of the feelings and thoughts she describes here."
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Lee Anne Phillips
-Women's Books Online
Preview Haunting Hands
The following contains poetry/images dealing with surviving sexual
abuse
and could be potentially triggering or disturbing.
Sensitive viewers are strongly
cautioned.
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