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Adele C. Geraghty

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Born

in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

October 13

Genre

Poetry, Women & Gender Studies, Literature & Fiction

Influences

Daisy Aldan, Anais Nin, Ruth Lisa Schecter, Ann Marx, Tobias Schneebau ...more

Member Since

August 2009

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https://www.goodreads.com/adelegeraghty

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Adele Celeste Geraghty, author of 'Skywriting in the Minor Key: Women, Words, Wings', is a presentational poet, whose career also encompasses short story, journalism, book and music review and comedy/satire, as well as illustration and graphic design. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she attended The High School of Art and Design, where she studied Creative Writing under Beat Generation poet-publisher Daisy Aldan. She furthered her literary education at The New School for Social Research. In 1987, Adele received The US National Women's History Award for Excellence in Women's Related Poetry and Essay. The majority of her works depict women’s diverse roles and interpersonal relationships. Another of her recurring themes is life in Brooklyn, its ch ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 13 ratings · 2 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Concrete Mist Press Anthology by Heath Brougher (Editor), Michael Lee Johnson (Goodreads Author), Robin Wyatt Dunn 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Personal Bests Journal: Winter 2020, #1 by David Gardiner (Editor), P.C. Darkcliff (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Omma Velada 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Isidore of Seville

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“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll

tags: common-sense, education

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“The one thing that everybody wants is to be free...not to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free, the word discipline, and forbidden and investigated and imprisoned brings horror and fear into all hearts, they do not want to be afraid not more than is necessary in the ordinary business of living where one has to earn one's living and has to fear want and disease and death....The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.

~ September, 1943”
― Gertrude Stein

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“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

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