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Issue 6 • Summer 2003 • Featured Lodestar Writer • Poetry
From Beginning to New Beginning: A Cycle of Poetry
Patricia Nell Warren
Untitled Poem
From her first book of poetry A Tragedy of Bees, published by Novi Poezii in New York in 1960.
I want to be without reds, without blacks,
night without shadows, motion without wind.
I want to see horses that don't run with silk,
that don't run with lightning or shimmers.
I write with chlorophyll, but not with green,
with juice of plants, but not of roses.
I ponder a world without ears, without eyes,
where sounds are not heard, where beings are not seen.
in sleep I see an unheard thunder --
this thunder is shaped like an urn.
I want to live without reds, without blacks,
night without shadows, motion without wind.
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From Beginning to New Beginning: A Cycle of Poetry
Untitled Poem,
Case History,
Anti-Season,
Excerpt from "Some Kind Of Kasida",
The Matador's Prayer,
Excerpts from "Minimal Poems",
Memoirs
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Patricia Nell Warren has 40 years' experience in publishing. Starting in 1959 at The Reader's Digest, she rose to book editor, working with a number of prominent authors, till 1980. Her own author career started in 1971, with a first novel from Dial Press. She published bestsellers The Front Runner, Harlan's Race, and Billy's Boy. Today she is co-owner and co-founder, with author/publicist Tyler St. Mark, of Wildcat Press, an independent author imprint. She belongs to The Authors Guild, is active in the ad-hoc group working to launch a gay publishing association, and serves as consultant for a growing number of self-publishing authors.
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