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As a baby boomer, I came to the realization that we are all products of our environment. Everyone we meet, each new experience and adventure we have, book we read, thought we think, lesson we learn, touches us, or teaches something we were meant to know. Life is continually changing us and molding who we were into the unique being we now are.

As Bri Maya Tiwari once said, "There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken; a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable; a sorrow beyond all grief which leads to joy, and a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength. There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass with each loss, out of whose darkness we are sanctioned into being."

That quote astutely describes not only my life, but the poetry in Anatomy of a Poet.

One of six children, I grew up in a small Ohio town and married my high school sweetheart at nineteen. A Vietnam War widow at twenty, I went on too soon to marry and then divorce twice.

I made a lot of choices, some good, some not so good, but as one of the poems in the book ends, "...at least I made choices. How sad for those who merely hitchhike along, never daring to choose at all."

Anatomy of a Poet was written over a period of nearly forty years. The poetry is rich with memoir, humor and, at times, it is sensual in nature.

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