Book Description

A Kind of Yellow is a book of poems of loss, grief and celebration. The book speaks of personal transcendence and renewal through teen pregnancy, domestic violence; being the mother of three, including a gifted, disturbed child; surviving a son's suicide. It attests to the power of creative writing to transform, heal and offer community. Some responses to A king of Yellow: James Hollis, Jungian analyst, author of The Middle Passage, Inner City Books: "...Courageous and eloquent and moving...."; Pat Schneider, founder of Amherst Writers & Artists, author of Writing Alone and With Others, Oxford University Press: "Its unremitting honesty takes the reader...into realms of human experience where courage becomes communion with the sacred."; Hight school students in Connecticut: "...in the end, there was her strength, and that gave me strength. I felt honored... that she would assume our intelligence was up to par with her own." "...she knows what it feels like to paint on that fake face, and she didn't want this to be a fake book of poetry... it is ... a gift she laid out for me to read." Writer's Digest in awarding A Kind of Yellow its 13th Annual International 1st Place Prize for self-Published Poetry Books: "...These were...accomplished poems...heartfelt....They expressed genuine emotion and the need to make sense of human life."