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A House of Bottles Robin Merrill 2009
A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press Nancy A. Henry and Alice N. Persons, Editors 2005
A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems Bay River Press 2002
A Stranger Home Natalya Sukhonos 2020
After the Parade Dana Robbins 2020
Agreeable Friends, Contemporary Animal Poetry Alice Persons, Editor 2008
All Four Seasons Jim Mello 2014
All You'll Derive: A Caregiver's Journey Bruce Spang 2019
ALMOST A REMEMBRANCE - Shorter Poems by Jack McCarthy Jack McCarthy 2011
Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate Annie Farnsworth 2006
At Bunker Cove Ralph Stevens 2017
Back East Michele Leavitt 2013
Be Careful What You Wish For Alice N. Persons 2003
Be There or Be Square Alice N. Persons 2018
Big Little City Mike Bove 2018
BLACK BOAT BLACK WATER BLACK SAND Dave Morrison 2009
Blues in the Night Herb R. Coursen 2010
Boulders, Birch and Wood Smoke: A Maine Melody Stephen A. Cowperthwaite 2014
Boy at the Screen Door Bruce Spang 2014
Burning Chairs John P. McVeigh 2013
Child is Working to Capacity Tom Delmore 2006
Compass Rose Ellen M. Taylor 2015
Dreamscape Claire Hersom 2017
Driftland Michael Macklin 2004
Drowning: A Poetic Memoir Claire Hersom 2008
Early Late Bloom Jim Mello 2007
ErosIon Nancy A. Henry 2004
Essays in All Directions Robert M. Chute 2007
Europe on $5 a Day Nancy A. Henry 2005
Evidence of Light Marita O'Neill 2005
Fancy Meeting You Here Alice N. Persons 2015
Faulty Wiring Bob MacLaughlin 2011
Feasting on Air Eva Miodownik Oppenheim 2015
Floating Ellen M. Taylor 2009
Frida's Boots Dana Robbins 2022
Full Moon Rising: the Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume II Alice N. Persons and Nancy A. Henry, Editors 2006
Giving It Up to the Wind Jack Troy 2021
He Gives Me Flowers Gaylord Day Weston 2007
Heaven Jumping Woman Pam Burr Smith 2011
HOME and Other Places Wil Gibson 2012
Homelands Ellen M. Taylor 2022
House Museum Mike Bove 2021
How Many Cars Have We Been Married? Ted Bookey, editor 2008
Humming to Snails Ellen M. Taylor 2005
Hummingbird James Breslin 2019
I Have Walked Through Many Lives Young Voices - Scarborough 2009
I Still Feel the Swirl Ruth Bookey 2017
Imminent Tribulations Kevin Sweeney 2016
In the Afternoon Marcia F. Brown 2019
Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A. Edison Dr. Blaine McCormick 2005
JESUS WAS A FEMINIST and Other Poems Robin Merrill 2014
Language as a Second Language Ted Bookey 2004
Laundry and Stories Robin Merrill 2005
Life Class Ruth Bookey 2007
LOST and FOUND David McCann 2018
Lostalgia Ted Bookey 2007
MALDEN David R. Surette 2018
Marengo Street Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel 2012
More Fun Than Pretty Tony Magistrale 2021
Museum Daniel Duff Plunkett 2016
My First Beatrice David Stankiewicz 2013
Nameless Roads Jim Brosnan 2019
Never say Never Alice N. Persons 2004
Not Just Anybody Bruce Spang 2015
Nothing Is Real Stanley Jordan Keach, Jr. 2014
Observed From a Skin Boat John Holt Willey 2013
Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems Edward J. Rielly 2007
One Day in One Town James McKenna 2019
Ordinary Time Kevin Sweeney 2009
Out of Words David McCann 2019
PASSION AND PRIDE: Poets in Support of Equality Bruce Spang 2012
People, Places, Poems David McCann 2023
Playing Solitaire Edward J. Rielly 2022
Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties Brenda Shaw 2006
Questions You Were Too Polite to Ask John-Michael Albert 2018
Radost, My Red Jeri Theriault 2016
Rags of Prayer Kevin Sweeney 2006
Read To Me Some Poem Maryli Tiemann and Alice Persons, Editors 2023
Red Stone Fragments Thomas R. Moore 2019
Rifles, Rumors, Gin And Prayer Jim Donnelly 2013
Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I Edited by Alice Persons & Nathan Amadon 2008
Same Bird David McCann 2016
SARX Nancy A. Henry 2010
Saving Nails Thomas R. Moore 2016
Sending Bette Davis to the Plumber Jenny Doughty 2017
Sex, Death, and Baseball David Moreau 2004
Singing With the Dead Ted Thomas, Jr. 2007
So Far Gretchen Berg 2022
Socks Jay C. Davis 2007
Sostenuto Karen Douglass 2006
Stable David R. Surette 2015
'Stitiously Speaking Ted Bookey 2017
Stones Thomas R. Moore 2021
Sun Shining on Snow: Poetry from the Senior College at the University of Maine at Augusta Ted Bookey 2012
T'ai Chi of Leaves Elizabeth Potter 2016
Tangled Antonia Lewandowski 2023
Tell them that you saw me but you didn't see me saw Tom Delmore 2011
Thank Your Lucky Stars Alice N. Persons 2011
That Mischievous Moon Jim Donnelly 2017
The Arrangement of Things Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel 2018
The Bird Catcher John-Michael Albert 2012
The Church of St. Materiana Anne Britting Olesen 2007
The Common Law James McKenna 2012
The Desire Line Michelle Lewis 2006
The Flame and the Fiction Darcy Shargo 2005
The Hard Way Jay C. Davis 2006
The Lawns of Lobstermen Douglas "Woody" Woodsum 2010
The Left Side of My Life Dana Robbins 2015
The Stream Don Moyer 2006
The Ur-Word Jim Glenn Thatcher 2008
The Widow From Lake Bled Kirby Wright 2013
THE WILDEST PEAL: Contemporary Animal Poetry II Alice Persons, Editor 2015
Things As They Are Eva Miodownik Oppenheim 2005
Through the Loop of Time Eva Miodownik Oppenheim 2010
To Sadie at 18 Months and other poems Edward J. Rielly 2011
To the Promised Land Grocery Bruce Spang 2008
Tonic David R. Surette 2023
Traveling Through History Patrick Hicks 2005
Tuscany Light M. Kelly Lombardi 2006
Unidentified Flying Odes Dennis Camire 2006
Vivaldi for Breakfast John-Michael Albert 2009
Walking Track Jay Franzel 2005
Ways of Looking Edward J. Rielly 2005
What on Earth Marcia F. Brown 2010
When We Invented Water Marcia F. Brown 2014
Whispers, Cries, & Tantrums Jay C. Davis 2004
With a W/Hole in One Ted Bookey 2010
You Can Still Go To Hell...and Other Truths About Being a Helping Professional David Moreau 2007

Book Details

Drowning: A Poetic Memoir

Drowning: A Poetic Memoir

by Claire Hersom – copyright 2008

ISBN 978-0-9796947-9-0

$11

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Reviews for Drowning: A Poetic Memoir

by Nancy Henry

These are poems to make you care, to make you think of people you may know who are probably silently suffering these very deprivations but all the time it's been more convenient not to know. This poet says "to hell with shame" and champions truth with no holds barred, and with a manner artful but not crafty--in a voice beautiful in its rough truth, but not embellishing. They are poems to start a revolution of compassion. Read them.

Sample from Drowning: A Poetic Memoir

Griswold

"Fins, Ma, it has fins!" - stereo daughter chants, 1993


A roof rack redwoods could lie across
bench seats, vinyl blue
arm rests as wide as a thigh,
hood as long as their brother
a steering wheel round as the moon,
$800 and the frame was good.

It took more gas than they had money.
It fit the field hockey team.
It looked downright jaunty
with 15 inch whitewalls.

If they hit a tree no dent, no death
can't leave town - no gas.
Chevy Chase could drive it under an 18 wheeler
and live.

It was perfect.

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